Originally Posted by
sitigeltfel
my old boss, AVM Sir Phillip Lagesen, his DFC.
Mine too but I never knew that story. Even though they wore jackets with medal ribbons I don't think too many of us could tell what they were. There were a fair number of DFC, DFM and AFC around but no one ever talked about them.
My grandfather had an MC and a Croix de Guerre. Unusually he was a Supply Officer and all he wrote was "I suppose they gave it to me because they would have starved if I hadn't got through."