HM Armed Forces Lapel Badge

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Polly_Pod wrote: »

thanks for posting this its important to recognise what our elders did..... my grandad got his last year, he's 94 it was a long time ago BUT he was soooo chuffed!!

My dad is 65 on the 17th of this month, so it will hopefully be a nice suprise for him...

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I had second thoughts about applying for a badge, in recognition of forcible call up for National Service, but what the heck, it is free, and it must have cost the government heaps for something that will rest in a draw for evermore. So I thought it is free, so why not apply.
As I have no idea when I will be needing it, I would feel an absolute prat going to the local supermarket displaying it on my coat lapel, and have no intention of marching in commemorative displays, I just had an idea of putting it along side my Dad's medals which I keep in a cabinet, medals that he was deservedly awarded for service in the Royal Navy in WW11. He must have been offended, because the pin fell off the cheap badge when I tried to pin it along side his six proper and distinguished medals