Medals Campaign

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You are invited to take part in a medals campaign. The original idea was to return your medals in protest at the pension freezing regime.

See the-old'un's-diary.pdf You will need Adobe or equivalent pdf reader for this file.

But not many people favoured this idea, so it has been modified to be a brochure showing people and medals, people who still love their native land but don't understand why they have been discarded in their retirement years.

Shown below is a good example giving a picture and text relating to P.O. John Seager.

For instructions on what to do with your picture and your text, read Medals Instructions

Petty Officer John [Jim] Seager, RN,  OAM

 Medals displayed

Order of Australia Medal, 1939-1945 Star, Battle of the Atlantic Star, Western Desert Star, Burma Star, Italy Campaign Star, End of 1939-45 War Star, Korean War Campaign Medal, UN Medal for Korean War, Malaya Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal.

 PO John Seager completed his Royal Navy service in 1965 after 26 years, leaving as a Petty Officer Instructor, [Plotting and Radar].

John Seager is saddened that the UK Government, for whom he fought and served around the world, should take the view that people like him, who migrate and  retire abroad, in Commonwealth countries, are denied any increases in their British age pension. For they have usually paid the necessary National Insurance contributions and are disadvantaged just because they have chosen to live overseas, especially those settling in Commonwealth nations, which generally come to the aid of Britain whenever requested to do so. John is now retired and lives in a Sydney suburb, Australia, close by his family.