Danny, I was indeed interested in your account of getting your wound stripe. I knew it existed, but it seems to have been issued very sparingly - in 30 odd years of dealing in militaria I am pretty sure I have never come across one. The long service stripes (inverted chevrons) were abolished in 1950 so I wonder if the wound stripe went at the same time.
Ian and
P-N - drifting a bit on the subject of aircrew awards, it is surprising that the DFC (officers and warrant officers) was awarded 20,354 times in WW2, whereas the DFM (flight sergeants and below) was awarded only 6,637 times. Given the number of sergeants in Bomber Command crews in particular, this disparity is certainly strange. Since the pilot of a multi-crew aircraft was more likely to be an officer than the other crew members, could this be the reason? Perish the thought that pilots were considered more deserving of medals than the rest
