Knighthoods, they dish them out like degrees these days.

[Midwest]

We visited Tyne Cot in Belgium this year, a WW1 Commonwealth War Grave. There are three recipients of the VC buried there.

We were shown the grave of Sergeant Lewis McGee, V.C. Apparently he captured a machine gun post, only armed with a pistol.

One of the memorials actually covers the original German concrete bunker.

Nearly 12000 Commonwealth sodiers are buried there, with over 90,000 remembered with no grave. True Knights.

 

[Andy-1960]

Did Nick Clegg get this for destroying the plastic carrier bag industry?? - His one and only achievement .. haha

 

[JAWS]

After Jack Straws son Will got honoured with a CBE for being the head of the EU Remain campaign last year I never thought these honours could possibly get any worse.

Only to find out another loser in Clegg is awarded one to me these are now very meaningless indeed.

Failure is the opportunity for success it seems.

Absolutely scandalous

 

[Pete999]

After Jack Straws son Will got honoured with a CBE for being the head of the EU Remain campaign last year I never thought these honours could possibly get any worse.

Only to find out another loser in Clegg is awarded one to me these are now very meaningless indeed.

Failure is the opportunity for success it seems.

Absolutely scandalous

They are only in politics for one reason, that reason is what can politics do for me, abolish the House Lords, save this country Billions of pounds.

 

[telectrix]

after seeing that renegade hessletine on TV, doing his best to scupper brexit, no doubt he'll be the next.

 

[JAWS]

after seeing that renegade hessletine on TV, doing his best to scupper brexit, no doubt he'll be the next.

Yep he’s another one.

 

[Des 56]

I tend to get embroiled in political argument,I am also very useless in that subject,however, I did play the drums when I was a toddler

Sir Des has a sort of comforting ring to it,don't you agree

 

[telectrix]

I tend to get embroiled in political argument,I am also very useless in that subject,however, I did play the drums when I was a toddler

Sir Des has a sort of comforting ring to it,don't you agree

hmmm. Lord of the Lambs?

 

[Squid]

They are only in politics for one reason, that reason is what can politics do for me, abolish the House Lords, save this country Billions of pounds.

Get rid of the Bishops who sit in the House of Lords for starters, its all a "old boys network" scratch my back I scratch yours we all would love a slice of the pie......

 

[Squid]

I got this:

Awards | DCM - https://www.dcm.co.uk/awards

Thought it would have been an AVN for the errrr cough home movies,

 

[Pete999]

Get rid of the Bishops who sit in the House of Lords for starters, its all a "old boys network" scratch my back I scratch yours we all would love a slice of the pie......

I had better refrain from commenting on the Clergy, I may get a ban

 

[Squid]

I had better refrain from commenting on the Clergy, I may get a ban

Like sausage munchers?

 

[PEG]

Like sausage munchers?

THAT would have been a better post,if you had forgot the "?"

 

[Strima]

Three words that sum up the honours system...
Sir
Jimmy
Saville

 

[ruston]

And Sir Clement....

 

[Pete999]

Like sausage munchers?

Port hole duff wallahs

 

[Midwest]

Back to my War history hijack;

I watched the film Hacksaw Ridge the other day. Its a true story about an American conscientious objector, Desmond Doss, who served as a combat medic in WW2. In the film, they try to get him discharged, through abuse & court marshal, because of his refusal to handle a gun.

In real life, he served as a medic. He received two Bronze Star medals for bravery at Guam & Leyte, and then the Medal of Honour, during the Battle of Okinawa, where he rescued 75 of his own men, whilst the battlefield was occupied by the enemy.

Towards the end of the film, directed by Mel Gibson, Doss is stretchered off the battlefield. In real life, 'Doss had another wounded man take his place on the stretcher. After treating the soldier, a sniper shot & fractured Doss' arm and he crawled to safety after being left alone for five hours. Gibson omitted this from the film because he felt that the audience would not find the scene believable'. (citation wiki).

He lived to survive the War, and died in 2006 aged 87.

You can read his Medal of Honour citation, at the foot of this Wikipedia page;
Desmond Doss - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss

 

[Squid]

He also lost a lung and 5 ribs after the war due to TB, he suffered a lot but was an incredible human being, the film was fantastic, better then Dunkirk.

 

[Midwest]

He also lost a lung and 5 ribs after the war due to TB, he suffered a lot but was an incredible human being, the film was fantastic, better then Dunkirk.

Both films were commendable observations, the real events incredible. War is ----.