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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	18 Jun 2013 11:46
	If he wants kye he knows where the galley is.
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 1,336 Send Message	Mayfield	Report	18 Jun 2013 11:31
	Well done, and not before time. Perhaps a nice hot cup of kye might be appropriate as well as the Cava! Mayfield To save those not in the know Googling, Kye is hot very sweet chocolate / cocoa given to watch keepers on RN ships.
	Researching: Moribus facit homo,
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	18 Jun 2013 09:15
	He didn't get the one from Russia. Don't know how you would go about getting that one. It may only have been awarded to men on certain convoys or members of veterans associations who applied for it. We only have had any dealings with them through SSAFA since he had his stroke and the Burma Star Association funded the shed.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,204 Send Message	badger	Report	18 Jun 2013 08:52
	From one Fred to another ,well done friend ,all of you should have been recognized many years ago ,by our government ,and not ,at the time, left to the Russians to give all the lads on the Arctic convoys recognition.Fred. :-D
	Researching: Baird,Barnes,Sturgess,King,Bristow, Mead,Brooks,Lane,Bartlett, Tyneside Chesham, Bucks,London & home counties
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,085 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	18 Jun 2013 07:51
	Great news Sharron. I hope Fred enjoys the lunch and presentation of his well-deserved medal. Do please give us an update after Thursday. Gwyn
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 32,472 Send Message	Purple *^Sparkly^* Diamond	Report	18 Jun 2013 07:29
	Great news Sharron, hope Fred enjoys the presentation and the Cava, I must ask my neighbour if he was involved. I seem to remember he got a medal to do with the Russian convoys a few years back tho, wonder if it's the same thing Lizx
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	17 Jun 2013 19:50
	wonderful news, Sharron xxxx Good for you in getting it for him.
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	17 Jun 2013 19:48
	Wonderful news, Sharron!! xx
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	17 Jun 2013 19:26
	I don't really want anybody "big" to do it. Everybody at the village lunch knows him and he wouldn't like anything much bigger to happen. A drop of cava and a parish councillor will do for him!
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 8,423 Send Message	ChrisofWessex	Report	17 Jun 2013 19:13
	How wonderful and so long overdue for all of thosel who served in those hellish seas.
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 3,637 Send Message	♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥	Report	17 Jun 2013 19:05
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 3,637 Send Message	Well done for getting it for him... how about notifying the local press & get his photo in the paper. Have you tried asking if the Naval C could come, or knows someone who would come in uniform. edit. There will be a Veterans Group near you, try contacting them. If you Google you will see that several are organizing big events.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	17 Jun 2013 18:33
	Normally we have a couple of retired naval commanders and a Dame at the village lunch. This month the best we can manage is a parish councillor which won't impress him much. He was never very in awe of me when I was one anyway! I have had to go to Aldi and buy some bubbly. I couldn't afford six of the £12.99 bottles so he will have to make do with Cava. All taste the same to me anyway! Now I have to find his other medals, which I put somewhere where I would remember them!
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 13,170 Send Message	Mauatthecoast	Report	17 Jun 2013 16:04
	Marvellous news that'll give Fred a big grin :-D
	Researching: In my own little world where everybody knows me... ..... best thing about happy memories is making them....
Member Since: November 2008 Posts: 39,699 Send Message	PatinCyprus	Report	17 Jun 2013 15:55
	They deserved it as soon as the war finished for what they went through. Like Bomber Command the forgotten heroes. They all defended freedom so all should be recognised. Tell him thank you, job well done :-)
	Researching: Lloyd,Paddock,Cooper,Morris,Rigby West Midlands Salop Worc
Member Since: January 2010 Posts: 57,155 Send Message	'Emma'	Report	17 Jun 2013 15:50
	Sharron how wonderful, so pleased for him. Emma :-)
Member Since: May 2005 Posts: 3,549 Send Message	Nolls from Harrogate	Report	17 Jun 2013 15:29
	Now there's some good news for a change ...well done! :-D
	Researching: Gilmour/McSherry/Boyle/Mason/Robertson
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 9,249 Send Message	Sue In Yorkshire.	Report	17 Jun 2013 15:13
	Thats wonderful news and Fred will be overjoyed to receive it at last.. :-D :-D
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	17 Jun 2013 13:35
	That is great news Sharron :-)
	Researching: I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 377 Send Message	terryj	Report	17 Jun 2013 13:31
	miss understood there thought you had brought him some cheap white cider :-D well done on the award shame its 40 years too late and worse still too late for many
	Researching: having a mod life crisis i was born with nothing and have most of it left
Member Since: November 2010 Posts: 72,449 Send Message	Mersey	Report	17 Jun 2013 13:05
	Its such great news Sharron <3
	Researching: #Be Kind

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