Do you feel that is a fair comment TTN? OAP
Well as I didn't do long enough to qualify for an LS&GC whatever the date criteria I feel I can be neutral on this. All I meant to say was that if the powers that be felt that if a man who was killed as a result of enemy action still didn't qualify for campaign medals as he hadn't actually reached the theatre he was heading for, then putting an arbitrary limit on which officers may qualify for a long service medal seems a fairly trivial matter by comparison.
Incidentally I was chatting to my old plotter on the phone and discovered he hadn't heard about this medal. I told him that his service dates would not qualify him for the award, but he said he would probably have failed on the "good conduct" side of things anyway!