Look at these two top notchers! They challenge Alan Mcilthwaite for the top spot.

who is walter mitty

A bit like chip?

If those medals were genuine their service would have spanned 40 odd years. One guy has a military cross with a MID on it - impossible! The wannabee US General on the second picture has awarded himself a George Cross (same level as a VC) and he wears it on the second row - ricidulous! Medals are worn in order of importance or in the case of campaign medals, in order of date awarded.

The berets are bollocks too, no one who has ever served would wear a beret like a flat cap on a Remberance Day parade.

As for why they weren't pulled up, god only knows. I guess people didn't want to make a fuss on this particular day.

I know somebody who goes to pay his respects on Remembrance Sunday every year wearing his Dad's and Grandads medals.
He does it out of respect for them, what they did and in gratitude to their fallen comrades.
He doesn't make any secret as to who won the medals, it's obvious that a first world war medal is not his.
Is he wrong, bearing in mind that his intentions are honourable?

Absolutely they're wrong.

It's perfectly acceptable to wear your fathers/grandfathers medals but you wear them on the right. These two are claiming active service and big big gallantry awards for themselves.

I have never been in the forces so I don't know the etiquette and have no medals, but I would be proud to wear my Grandads if I knew where they were that is.
Unless some old soldier told me how to wear them, I would probably wear them as everybody else does.
Mind you I would expect somebody with experience of these things to have a quiet word in my shell like if I was not abiding by the rules.

I like that fat gadgie behind the poser in the first picture. Lazy idle REME dreamer with one campaign medal, probably Cyprus, that lasted about eight minutes, and an LSGC for doing bugger all for 18 year.

what is bobby charlton doing in this photo
to left and behind gadgie wearing sas beret
is that his european cup winners medal he is wearing ?

Nope its a NI GSM. Hoy, I've got a Cyprus UN medal!! I got it for risking life and limb in the bars of Limasol. The medal is a joke to be fair, used to be called the 'Ambre Solaire medal'.

I'm still confused about the thinking behind the MID on the MC. The MID goes on the campaign medal last time I looked.

I think the first bloke has acquired all of those fake medals purely to distract your glance from that disgusting tie.

Are you sure?? I though a GSM was a GSM and the clasp said where you got it?? More campaigns more clasps...

Definitely.

The Cyprus medal is bronze on a blue and white ribbon (UN) whereas his is a GSM. To be fair I'm guessing on the NI bit but he doesn't look old enough for Dhofar. More to the point he's not pretending to be anything he isn't. REME don't tend to get many Walts.

Oh aye, it's a GSM to be sure, to be honest he looks like our pay runt from 10 Field at Tidworth but he was APC. Could be something later like Belize?? Singapore?? What did they get in Hong Kong apart from clap??

Not sure about HK/singapore but I don't think there was a peacekeeping medal for Belize.

I was never sure about Cyprus either 'cos we were Spearhead Battalion on the Sunday but handed over to Catterick on the Monday. The shit hit the fan on the Sunday but not until about teatime so they sent Catterick instead. I didn't know it was UN, I thought it was just Turks v Occupying Britain, but then again they never went near Akrotiri or any other Brit base and the main thing was to get the families and tourists out. There was people at Brize Norton in beach wear.

Ah you mean the actual war. Way before my time luv. i'm not sure was was issued on that one, I was on about the peacekeeping afterwards.

This thread has got me wondering about something I was told while in the RAF in Oman around 1975. At the time I was on an island called Masirah, off the south east coast. Approx once a fortnight our cashier had to travel west to Salalah, right on the border with Yemen, to visit the bank and collect the cash required for pay etc. He had to be accompanied by a couple of 'guards' for this 2 day visit, and I did go along on one occasion. Now I was told that if we 'served' 30 days, or in this case made 15 similar visits to what was still considered to be a 'war zone', we would be entitled to the GSM. The cashier certainly made that number of trips, and his clerk also would have done. I particularly have always hoped that this wasn't true, because the clerk in question would have revelled in a 'Walter Mitty' fashion with his medal.

Doing a quick search, I've only been able to find details of a GSM for South Arabia, but it was only awarded beween 1964 and 1967.

On a slightly different note while on Masirah, we regularly had SAS personnel passing through on their way to Salalah, to support the Oman troops. On one occasion I saw one group that included one man with one arm! On reflection since then I've decided he probably only had an arm injury, and had it bandaged up underneath his tunic. But it certainly created the image of them being hard bastads.

Daily Mail on the case now:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1233188/Hunt-Remembrance-Day-conman-marched-impossible-haul-21-medals.html

Bloody hell, it says in there he got a medal for his privates........I'm gonna keep me half a dollar to me self.

The Cyprus medal depends on when you were there. When Archbishop Makarios and his EOKA chums were popping troops and other people off, it may have had some relevance.

Thats true enough Snowman. I've got the Cyprus medal and nobody including me has any respect for it. It says that you went on holiday and got paid for it. There are plenty of others around in a similar vane; most of the range of Yugoslavia UN medals - theres about 4 depending on the country and most were issued long after the nasty business had finished.

I wear it with mine because I'm entitled to. I haven't added a VC/GV or a DSO/DSC just to make up the numbers.

The Cyprus medal with 'Bar' seems appropriate.

A story I was merely a spectator to concerned two older blokes on about their Malayan Campaign medals in the fifties, they went on and on about their experiences, all quite traumatic. A certain member of their party was taking this all in and when they finished he said that he had one and it was no big deal... the two blokes went ballistic with him and asked him how the hell he'd got one.... he told them he was on a carrier moored a silly distance off shore delivering mail and because they spent the required time sunbathing in the 'zone', they all qualified.

Same story in the Falklands. There are two varients of the medal; with rosette which means you were in the combat zone, then theres the standard medal without rosette for those who wwere in the South Atlantic but a good distance away from any trouble. That version is otherwise known as the 'South Africa Medal'

Snowy, I just remembered another story.

You know the GSM (Northern Ireland) medal. You qualified for it for spending 30 days in the province during the 'troubles'.

I know of a guy who was on leave with his girlfriend in N Ireland. He got into a fight and ended up on a charge and got 42 days in local military nick. Consequently he met the qualification of 30 days and got the medal.

I got mine much easier than that. DJ-ing, drinking and generally fooking about.

Latest episode.......

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... m_For_Real

I have a spreadsheet with the name of every person awarded the South Atlantic Medal. I can confirm categorically that there is no Roger Day on the list.

At least he got his medal for fighting !!!!!!!