Excellent Jock!........and thanks to George for bringing it to our attention.

SHAZAM!


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Brilliant Jock. If you lived closer I would give you a big bottle of your favourite malt - only kidding!!

Now thats what I have always liked about the Jocks, Never let money get in the way of a good story.

£20 divided by 35,000 =£0-5.71p call it 5p each

Once again BLOODY WELL DONE

Glad that all are so pleased....I have long maintained that what we need is 'ink' ...'air time' would be even better!.....I urge all to respond to even the most passing newspaper reference to our campaign with a letter to the Editor...

Personally I'm a wee bit disappointed at the ruthless editing...they cut out all my 'sarky' stuff...and that is what I live for!!.

..this is what I submitted:
The Editor; Daily Record,

Dear Sir,

Mark McGivern's excellent piece on the fight for the right to wear the PJM covers the essential points of this struggle very well.Col. Clive Fairweather's comments regarding the insult given to the veterans and to the Malaysian people by this pettiness are well taken. As a veteran of the Malayan 'Emergency myself, I applaud his statements and would add only, that refusal to permit veterans to 'formally' wear this medal also denigrates the sacrifice made by 519 of Col. Fairweather's (and my) comrades who gave their very lives in the struggle.

As for the comments of the 'spokesman for the army in Scotland'...in his sycophantic rush to parrot the official line, he makes the fundamental error of confusing 'soldiers' with 'veterans'...all of the recipients of the PJM are civilian seniors in their 60's and 70's...no longer subject to military dress codes.

As for the assertion that 'some soldiers are disgruntled'. Permit me to respectfully suggest that your readers access the website at http://www.fight4thepjm.org/index.htm and assess the level of emotion for themselves.

John 'Jock' Fenton
(ex Royal Corps of Signals & 17th Gurkha Division


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Paroi...Rasah...Batu Signals Troop.

Mind?????

....I'm delighted!.....whatever way we can 'get at them' is good enough by me.


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Paroi...Rasah...Batu Signals Troop.

Jock I take back the offer of a bottle of malt when I see you were paid £20 for the article.

McDangle, my brother...

Would your attitude change if I tell you that I have been forewarned that the aforementioned 20 quid will 'not be paid until June sometime'?

....and, being of a congenitally 'canny' nature, I never count my chickens before they are hatched, nor my 20 pound notes until they are firmly grasped between my sticky fingers.

I prefer to wait an see what the future may bring!


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Paroi...Rasah...Batu Signals Troop.

Jock
An excellent letter, and one which cannot fail to advance the cause.


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Gerald Law (ex RAF Borneo Veteran)