Originally Posted by Roadster280
Well done the hierarchy, if it was indeed they that organised this.
Well...
Sergeant Carrie, born in Dundee in 1915, has the unique distinction of being the only Chelsea Pensioner eligible to have a Bomber Command Clasp (instituted last year) because as well as his army service he served in the Royal Air Force in World War II as a flight engineer on Lancaster bombers. Indeed it was only when he received his Clasp in April this year by General Sir Redmond Watt, the Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea that staff realised Sergeant Carrie was ‘improperly dressed’ without his flight engineer brevet, which he was eligible to wear on his uniform along with his medals. However on Friday that was put right by Air Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier who took time away from his job as the Deputy Chief of Defence for Military Capability to present Sergeant Carrie with his missing brevet.
And another wounded Afghanistan Veteran!!!
Astonishingly Mr Carrie’s RAF service came after he had already served in the Army, which he had joined in 1934 aged 19. He was posted to the Khyber Pass on the North West Frontier (the western frontier of present day Pakistan) where before WWII he saw active service and was wounded. He later saw active service in France at the beginning of WWII before being badly wounded and evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. His injuries prevented him from continuing his service with the Army but undeterred he joined the RAF’s Bomber Command in 1943 and served until demobbed in 1946.