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Pingat Jasa Medal
The Pingat Jasa Malaysia
(PGM) is a special medal of service which is being awarded by the
Government of Malaysia to eligible United Kingdom Service personnel
who served from Independence until the end of Confrontation in the
security of Malaysia, during the period 31st August to 12th August
1966 inclusive. 
Pingat Jasa Malaysia
The association has now received all the necessary information from the
Ministry of Defence and is authorised to process and submit applications
on behalf of RAF Aerial Erectors.
Any member of the association wishing to apply for the PJM should contact
me for the further information, application and instructions forms.
The association is willing to process applications from Ex RAF Aerial
Erectors who are not members of the association and members of the
Ground Radio Installation Squadron, Radio Engineering Unit, RAF Henlow.
The Malaysian High Commission in London has
announced that the closing date to apply for the Pingat Jasa Malayasia Medal
will now remain indefinate until further notice. However claimants are urged
to submit their applications as soon as possible.
E-mail to :- eddieedwards@supanet.com or use the contact page
on this website
Please note that applications for the PJM cannot be
made directly to the Ministry of Defence or the Malaysian High
Commission.
Veteran Lapel Badge
The United Kingdom Armed
Forces Veteran Lapel Badge is now available to all Men
and Women who served in HM Armed Forces.
Prior to the 16th November
2005 the Veterans Badge
was only available to people who had served in HM Armed Forces up to
the end of the Second World War.The Veterans Agency has recently announced a further
extension of the qualifying dates bringing the period covered from the
31st December 1994 right up to the present day.
A copy of the Veterans
Agency application form has been sent to all members known to qualify for
the badge, having completed their service since 1994.
Cartoon
Below is a cartoon that was passed to me by Chick Denson
claiming it might bring back some memories of my mis-spent youth -
AS IF! This cartoon is by someone called KANE and appears to
have come from a book or collection of cartoons. I have adapted
it by adding a different caption and the name of the bar. My
thanks to Tommo (Chris Thompson) for his advice on the name of
the Hostelry thought to be used by the Riggers in Episkopi.
If anyone has
any information on this cartoonist or better still knows where I
can find more of his cartoons, then please let me know.
To view the
cartoon, just click on it!
AERIAL ERECTORS move to the New Trade Group 4,
There is now a new
Communications and Information Trades Group, Trade Group 4. All the
communications personnel in the old trades groups 3 and 11 plus the
Aerial Erectors from trade group 5 are being amalgamated to form
this new trade group. A Personnel and Training Command spokes-person
stated in the RAF News, that "RAF communications and information
systems skills need to be optimised for deployed expeditionary
operations. These specialists of the future must be able to deploy,
configure, manage, electronically protect, operate, sustain, and
recover modern IT-rich networks and to manage the information
within these networks".
Direct
recruitment into the communications and information systems aerial
erectors trade will continue until such time as it is merged with
the Communications and Information Systems Technician (CIS Tech)
trade.
In
the medium term the aerial erectors trade will remain separate
within trade group 4 and it will retain its current structure, but
the longer term intention is to merge the aerial erectors and the
communications and information systems trades.
MEDALS
GENERAL
SERVICE MEDAL 1918 - 62
SUEZ
CANAL ZONE
The qualification criteria for this medal has now been decided.
Anyone with 30 days or more continuous service in the Canal Zone between
16th October 1951 and 19th October 1954 will qualify for either
the General Service Medal 1918-62 or a clasp to add to a previously
awarded General Service Medal.
MOD officials state that veterans will need to apply in writing to
the Medal Office (listed below - for the R.A.F.) giving full name,
date of birth and Service Number.
The issue of the medals has now commenced.
Royal
Air Force Medal Office,Room 6, Building 248A, RAF PMA, RAF
Innsworth,
Gloucester, Gloucestershire GL3 1EZ.
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