MEDAL INFORMATION 
 
Artic Star Medal
At long last the government  awards the medals.   Application form available from www.veterans-uk/info    ( here ) follow the links.

or freephone 0800 0853600  for further details.

26th February 2013
 
 
  HM Armed Forces Veterans Badge  It may be of some interest to our younger vets that the application has now been opened up to all servicemen who served up to 31st.December 1994,  (Form)
 

Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal-    

The last date for acceptance of application forms for the Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal will be 30th September 2012.      All applications prior to that date will honoured.

November 2011 -Unrestricted Permission to receive and wear the PJM

A statement to the press was published on the 6 Nov 2011 by the MOD which outlined that for the first time British Veterans could wear the PJM during Remembrance Events from 11 November 2011.
The full statement is as follows

VETERANS TO WEAR MALAYSIA MEDAL OFFICIALLY FOR FIRST TIME

British veterans awarded the Pingat Jasa Malaysia (PJM) medal have been given permission by Her Majesty The Queen to wear it for the first time during Remembrance events next Sunday.

The Government of Malaysia introduced the medal in 2005 and awarded it to British and Commonwealth veterans who served in the conflict in Malaya in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Approval is not normally given for foreign medals to be accepted if British recognition for a campaign has already been presented. Previously, veterans had been able to accept but not wear the medal. It has now been agreed they can both accept and wear the PJM.

This was done to recognise the generous gesture by the King and Government of Malaysia, and their wish to award the PJM in recognition of service given by many veterans in the difficult years leading up to and following Malaysian independence.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said:

“I am delighted that Her Majesty The Queen has given approval for veterans to formally wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia medal in recognition of service given in the difficult years leading up to and following Malaysian independence. This timely decision is particularly welcome for veterans who will, for the first time, be able to wear this medal with pride on Remembrance Sunday.”

 

 

Claims For Other Medals

These should be addressed to:

Service Personnel Veterans Agency (Joint Personnel Administration Centre)
MOD Medal Office
Building 250
Imjin Barracks
Gloucester
GL3 1HW

Applications for campaign medals will require the applicant to provide a supporting copy of the service record of the individual concerned.

The DNPers Disclosure Cell is a Department within the Naval Secretary organisation and is not open to the members of the public.  Service record or medal requests should be made by completing the appropriate application form, or where the enquiry is of a more general nature, by writing to the appropriate organization concerned.  The Ministry of Defence will normally only release the information given in service records to the subjects of those records, or to their next of kin; and it may charge a search fee, which is non re-fundable.

For further information on how to obtain these records, go to Making a request for Information held on the Personnel Records of Deceased Service Personnel