As an associated question, can anyone provide details of where the "appropriate medal office" is for the Civilian Services?
I've been researching my (late) father's war service as a fireman (he would have hated the term "firefighter"!) in the East End of London in the Blitz, and indeed through the war.
Not
exactly a cushy posting, but family tradition has it that when they were giving out the medals (Defence Medal only I think in his case) the conversation went thus:
Very Senior Fireman: Here's your medal Fireman Teeters; well done!
Pa Teeters: So who is getting one of these?
VSF: Well
everyone's getting one!!
Pa T: Not much point in having it then, is there.....
Which would have been so much in character .......
But I
would like his now...
