PN, your anecdotes remind me of a Guest Night at RAFC in the very early '60s. Gus Walker presided at Top Table. A serving (but ex wartime also) Luftwaffe General sat beside him. Those nearby said that Gus ignored him all night. Such boorish behaviour from such a gallant and affable man speaks volumes of the real depths of feeling below the surface calm.
TTN:
...the Pole Star emblem which was recently authorised to be worn on the Atlantic Star ribbon by those who took part in the Arctic Convoys
I see that in concert with the call for a Bomber Campaign Medal (a Battle of Germany Star?) there are equally calls for those who took part in the Arctic Convoys to receive a separate medal (an Arctic Star?). Most had already earned the Atlantic Star anyway, in an ocean some 800 miles away! That both the Arctic and Bomber Campaigns gave enormous assistance to the Red Army's ability to push the Wehrmacht ever westwards is of note. That ally was rapidly becoming a potential, if not an actual foe, when these medals were
not struck.