Re Spekesoftly: Insufficiently spurious like most of us, I guess, not that I've ever lost any sleep over it. Who made the selection and on what basis I haven't the faintest. I knew that there was only a limited allocation of the Silver Jubilee Medal to the armed forces, but I hadn't realised quite how small until I had a quick look just now at wiki which says 9,000 across all services. On the other hand I was rather surprised to receive a Golden Jubilee Medal in the mail sometime in the summer of 02, having had my last day in the office at the beginning of Oct 01 and been busy adapting our new house on the qualifying date.