10FM68 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 (edited) https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/242090 The link above is to a petition being raised with the Government to specifically recognise service with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium from Sep 39 to Jun 40 with the award of a clasp to the 1938-45 Star. If you are a UK resident or citizen, you are eligible to add your name to the petition should you so wish. 10 68 Edited March 11, 2019 by 10FM68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10FM68 Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 Please do sign if you can - the numbers are needed. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/242090 The numbers who survive are very small and all will be in their late nineties at least and this would be a nice gesture of gratitude to those who gave so much. Thanks 10 68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mk3iain Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Totally agree and will do. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatchFuzee Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Signed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10FM68 Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 Thank you gentlemen, The more we have the better! 10 68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surveyor Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Signed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10FM68 Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 Many thanks, I'm most grateful. 10 68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surveyor Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Emailed to a member of the Ton Class Association, may help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-boy Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Another added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Being a Dutchman I am saddened I can't sign. Especially since I know BEF veteran and Dunkirk evacuee Jeff Haward MM personally and have transported him at a Dutch commemoration in the Dodge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10FM68 Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 Again, my thanks to you all - for the signatures, for the forwarding elsewhere and for your kind thoughts. I'm sorry the petition can be signed only by UK-residents: but it is comforting to know that, at least the original evacuation - Operation DYNAMO - didn't recognise such national limitations. For example, the Polish warship, ORP BLYSKAWICA, (Lightning) which is now the Polish Navy's museum ship, was one of many Allied vessels involved and was working in concert with HMS GREYHOUND the ship which brought my own grandfather off the beach at La Panne. As an aside, the BLYSKAWICA's name was so difficult for the RN to pronounce (it's something like Bweeskaveetza) that she was generally referred to as the "Bottle of Whisky". She was built at Cowes. (A further aside, the Estonian submarine LEMBIT, now in their maritime museum in Tallinn, was also British-built, by Vickers Armstrong, in 1936). Both vessels are well worth a visit if your in that part of the world. 10 68 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Bwiskaveetza would be closer but good try. It was built at Cowes and was capable of 39+ knots, have a read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Błyskawica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatchFuzee Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Just now, 10FM68 said: Thank you gentlemen, The more we have the better! Just looked at the petition, only 277 signatures. Has the petition had national coverage in the press or are there any famous people supporting it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10FM68 Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 On 3/21/2019 at 3:44 PM, MatchFuzee said: Just looked at the petition, only 277 signatures. Has the petition had national coverage in the press or are there any famous people supporting it? I don't know what the arrangement is with the petition, it was passed to me by a friend. But, I grant you, it does seem to need a bit of an additional impetus if it is to make the cut. Need to find these "Russian Bots" which seem to do so well with petitions! 10 68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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