Originally Posted by
binbrook
I remember the shock in about 1970 of seeing a Group Captain whose uniform had pilot's wings but no medal ribbons. Someone may remember him. Like many, he presumably served without qualifying for a GSM, and missed out on a Coronation Medal. After Korea, apart from Polar Medals that was about all there were.
When I arrived at Bruggen I was one of the few on the Sqn to have a medal, the others tending to have the LSGC ones, Mine was a GSM, common as Muck at Odiham, but rare in the rest of the RAF.