19-05-2008, 08:17 AM
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| WW2 Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
Posts: 927
| The true cost of replacing medals
Hi Just thought I would like to share this with you. I am in a long term, spasmodic e-mail correspondence with Tom Canning, ex 16/5th Lancers (amongst other units) and not unknown to some of you on this and other WW2 forums. Tom, now a resident of British Columbia, recently needed to replace his five WW2 medals and asked me to recommend a UK company that would do the job for a reasonable price. His last letter to me contained the paragraph “ The full set that I would need is £66.00 ($C128) which appears to be reasonable when one considers that the initial FREE set only cost five years of our lives !” Ron ps A few extra details here: BBC - WW2 People's War - An unlikely Post War meeting
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE  I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942 Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany)
Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn.
I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947
Last edited by Ron Goldstein; 19-05-2008 at 08:30 AM.
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