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World war toons being remade1/11/2024 ![]() ![]() The nuclear test, which took place on the Montebello Islands of Western Australia on 3 October 1952, made Britain the third nuclear power after the United States and the Soviet Union. It marked the 70th anniversary of the UK’s first test of a British nuclear weapon, a plutonium implosion device. ‘Their commitment and service has preserved peace for the past 70 years, and it is only right their contribution to our safety, freedom and way of life is appropriately recognised with this honour.‘ Last year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the post-hoc award when he attended the first-ever ceremony for nuclear veterans at the National Memorial Arboretum. The ‘Nuclear Test Medal’, as it has been inscribed on one side with a portrait of King Charles on the other, could best be described as a Cold War decoration. The medal features an engraving of an atom surrounded by olive branches. On Friday, another new medal was unveiled by the Cabinet Office. ![]() In 2014, some 67 years after the end of the Second World War, the Arctic Star was invented to reward those naval officers and merchant seamen who served on the convoys that took tanks, spitfires and munitions to the Russians in Archangel and Murmansk. ![]() It felt like my blood was boiling.’Īnother way of remembering the past is the creation of a new medal. ‘I saw right through my hands as the light was so intense. ![]() Even later, despite a somewhat less obvious case of omission, following a novel Animals in War by Jilly Cooper, a memorial of the same name was erected in front of Hyde Park’s Brook gate in 2004. His splendidly executed statue was duly unveiled in 1993 and sits proudly in Whitehall. Slim had won arguably the greatest victories of British forces in the Second World War: the Battle of Imphal in India and the Battle of Irrawaddy River in Burma. This was indeed a huge error of omission. As the manager of an Asian investment trust in the late 1980s, some 44 years after the Second World War, I was asked by my board to cough up a large sum of money to fund a statue of Field Marshal, Viscount Slim, the general who led British forces in India and Burma. Some wars get forgotten ( viz Korea and Malaya) others are constantly refreshed in memory. ![]()
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