This letter was sent to the following:

Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP
Foreign Secretary
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London, SW1A 2AH

Ian McCartney MP
Minister of State for Trade
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH

Rt Hon Tom Watson MP
Veterans Minister
MOD Ministerial Correspondence Unit
5th Floor, Zone B
Main Building
Whitehall, London
SW1A 2HB

Lt Col Alexander Matheson
Secretary of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St James Palace
London, SW1A

Mr Bill Jeffery
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence
Main Building
London, SW1A 2HB

Sir Michael Jay KCMG
Permanent under Secretary Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London, SW1A 2AH

Private Secretary to The Sovereign
Sir Robin Janvrin, KCB KCVO
Buckingham Palace
London, SW1A 1AA

Permanent Secretary, Home Office
Sir John Gieve CB
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London, SW1P 4DF

Mr William Chapman
Appointments Secretary to the Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1 2AA

Rt Hon Des Browne MP
Secretary of State for Defence
Horseguards Avenue
Whitehall
London, SW1A 2HB

Mr Denis Brennan
Ceremonial Secretary
Ceremonial Secretariat
Cabinet Office
35 Great Smith Street
London, SW1P 3 BQ

Rt Hon Tony Blair MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA

Mr Christopher J. Edge
Honours Secretariat
Room 1/62
Old Admiralty Building
London, SW1A 2PA


http://www.fight4thepjm.org/documents/Beckett_120806_1.pdf

Enclosures:

http://www.fight4thepjm.org/documents/PJMTouhig_toGL_070806.doc
http://www.fight4thepjm.org/documents/TouhigD_HoC_060706.doc

For addresses and text you can cut and paste, click here:

http://www.fight4thepjm.org/documents/Beckett_120806_1_text.doc

More to follow ...


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BarryF, who fought for the Right to Wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia

Great stuff Barry!


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Have a look at the email addresses on here, if Ms Becketts does not work, ie it has a DAEMON Failure Notice attached please send it to one of the other named players to forward to Ms Beckett

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ministerial_responsibilities/departments/fco.asp

If you copy and paste the following into your email To: address box and ask to forward on to Ms Beckett the following addresses this could have the desired effect we are looking for

chris.stanton@fco.gov.uk

msu.correspondence@fco.gov.uk

Sosfa-action@fco.gov.uk

psalexander@fco.gov.uk

ministerfortrade@fco.gov.uk

pshowellsinfo@fco.gov.uk

psmrpearsonallstaff@fco.gov.uk

ps-triesmanallstaff@fco.gov.uk

fco.serv@fco.gov.uk


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George F wrote:

Example letter to be posted tomorrow to all addresses supplied by Barry. All readers to the forum Please feel free to copy this letter or make up your own to suit, remembering to mention the REBUTTAL STATEMENT.

George,

Another corker... and linked to our Rebuttal and Petition.

This what we need.

Barry


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BarryF, who fought for the Right to Wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia

John Cooper wrote:

If you copy and paste the following into your email To: address box and ask to forward on to Ms Beckett the following addresses this could have the desired effect we are looking for

Exactly so, John. Thanks for highlighting them.

Barry


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BarryF, who fought for the Right to Wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia

BarryF wrote:

John Cooper wrote:

If you copy and paste the following into your email To: address box and ask to forward on to Ms Beckett the following addresses this could have the desired effect we are looking for

Exactly so, John. Thanks for highlighting them.

Barry

Four of the email addresses are bouncing each time I send them so I have sent all of them again and asked the recipient to forward to Ms Beckett


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I have just sent off a snail mail to Don Touhig with a copy of Andy's Citation attached. Here is the letter.
Dear Mr Touhig

That time is almost upon us when we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their Nation. Many of those who take part in parades up and down the country will be, like me, recipients of the PJM. Many more are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their medal, hoping that it might arrive in time for it to be worn on their parade. But to do so will be discourteous to HM and so they are left on the horns of a dilemma. By every logical and moral criterion they are entitled to wear what they have earned, but the archaic and illogi-cal concepts at work within Whitehall seek to deprive us all of that very fundamental right.

One such Veteran received his PJM yesterday via Royal Mail. Enclosed with it was a Citation which says with far greater eloquence than I could ever hope to muster, just what this award means to the Malaysians. With his permission I enclose a copy of that Citation for your interest and hopefully for distribution amongst your colleagues in government.


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Gerald Law (ex RAF Borneo Veteran)

Kudos Gerry...


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

George F wrote:

To Secretary of the HD committee Cabinet Office.

George,

Your letter emphasises just how simple the PJM recomemndation could have been.

Instead, there was 12 months of buttock-clenching, thin-lipped, mean-spirited thinking by a few British civil servants before they came up with a half-baked, confused and rambling excuse for a Minsiterial Statement that was designed, through its conflicting wording, to hide the fact that they had eventually had to re-write a whole set of Rules (two sets, actually), none "long-established", then introduce a new objection anc call it "long-standing", then apply the concoction retrospectively .... all just to deprive British citizens of the right to wear the PJM!

It beggars belief, it really does.

They are a contrived, two-faced, and deceitful bunch who served all that up to an HD Committee ... who unwittingly served it up to the Queen.

Err ... I'll just re-read that last bit ...

And then I'll stand by it!

Barry


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BarryF, who fought for the Right to Wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia