Thank you kindly for questioning the Secretary of State for Defense, answered by the MOD veterans affairs minister Mr. Touhig MP over the wearing of Pingat Jasa Medal.
Please find enclosed the Malaysian qualifications for the PJM medal in a letter I received from the Malaysian High Commission for your perusal.
As you probably know HMG have allowed us veterans to ACCEPT the PJM but we are not allowed to WEAR the medal even at formal occasions such as the new "Annual day to honour UK veterans." recently announced on TV by Mr Brown MP.
Notice in enclosed copy of Ian Pearson's Ministerial statement medal rules were reviewed, relaxed and amended to allow ACCEPTANCE, but those same rules were reinstated, to strengthen and harden, so as to officially prevent veterans from WEARING of the PJM medal.
A medal that is first allowed to be accepted but then is not allowed to be worn is not a medal. It becomes a $2 trinket and is therefore seen as an insult to most veterans.
Veterans from the Fight 4 the right to wear the PJM medal www.fight4thepjm.org/forum/ thank you for questioning MOD front bench ministers over the PJM medal. I hope more MPs like yourself from across the house will join us to campaign have the Ministerial Statement re amended so as to allow 35,000 veterans to officially wear the PJM medal with the pride it deserves at Mr Brown's new "Annual day to honour UK veterans."
Yours sincerely
George Fleming
Malaya Borneo Veteran
George fleming
Posted on 18 Feb 2006 5:20 am
Re: Mr Brown's Annual day to honour UK veterans.?
From: george.fleming @ fight4thePJM.org
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Date: FridayFebruary 12173120062004 10:08 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Annual day to honour UK veterans
Pingat Jasa Medal " Hansard Parliament (9 Feb 2006)"
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Dear Mr Hoyle,
Thank you kindly for questioning the Secretary of State for Defense, answered by the MOD veterans affairs minister Mr. Touhig MP over the wearing of Pingat Jasa Medal.
Please find enclosed the Malaysian qualifications for the PJM medal in a letter I received from the Malaysian High Commission for your perusal.
As you probably know HMG have allowed us veterans to ACCEPT the PJM but we are not allowed to WEAR the medal even at formal occasions such as the new "Annual day to honour UK veterans." recently announced on TV by Mr Brown MP.
Notice in enclosed copy of Ian Pearson's Ministerial statement medal rules were reviewed, relaxed and amended to allow ACCEPTANCE, but those same rules were reinstated, to strengthen and harden, so as to officially prevent veterans from WEARING of the PJM medal.
A medal that is first allowed to be accepted but then is not allowed to be worn is not a medal. It becomes a $2 trinket and is therefore seen as an insult to most veterans.
Veterans from the Fight 4 the right to wear the PJM medal www.fight4thepjm.org/forum/ thank you for questioning MOD front bench ministers over the PJM medal. I hope more MPs like yourself from across the house will join us to campaign have the Ministerial Statement re amended so as to allow 35,000 veterans to officially wear the PJM medal with the pride it deserves at Mr Brown's new "Annual day to honour UK veterans."
Yours sincerely
George Fleming
Malaya Borneo Veteran