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Old 14-06-18, 08:09 PM
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Didn’t the crime take place outside of Oxford Barracks, Münster?
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Didn’t the crime take place outside of Oxford Barracks, Münster?
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For what its worth, I joined up a week after my seventeenth in 1967 and had a good conduct stripe when I qualified on battalion service? Over eighteen didnt come into it?
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For what its worth, I joined up a week after my seventeenth in 1967 and had a good conduct stripe when I qualified on battalion service? Over eighteen didnt come into it?
How long had you served when you got it?.
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Dirty Den is in the uber in the sky now!
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Old 15-06-18, 04:23 PM
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Trapped for eternity in a groundhog day of riding in a taxi?
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As it happens he died today (15th June 2018) aged 71 Years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44494734
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Old 15-06-18, 05:08 PM
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Dirty Den is in the uber in the sky now!
Oh dear, how sad, never mind. All his "acting" cronies are saying what a wonderful, charming, good-hearted person he was. Where do they find these people?.
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Old 02-04-20, 05:01 PM
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42 years service and 8 x good conduct chevrons.......

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Nice find Leigh and an impressive set of medals on display there.

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Old 02-04-20, 05:24 PM
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Yes, I havn't had a good look - is that a 1914 Star with clasp rather than a 1914 Star without or a 1914-15 Star?
There are lots of Pathe News videos of inter-world war, WWII, post war British military uniform and insignia interest on you tube.
They'd make a really interesting and useful library on this forum.
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I see his medals as 1914 Star with Clasp, BWM & Victory, then an India General Service Medal with unknown Bar, Defence and War Medals, then possibly the 1937 Coronation Medal and finally a Long Service Medal with Bar.

Agree with your comments re the Pathe news as a resource for the Forum, some great uniform detail on show.

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Private Arthur (Nick) Carter, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Served from 1901 to 1951. Saw active service in the Boer War and the Great War. Awarded 10 Good Conduct Stripes. According to the Light Infantry website, the most ever awarded in the British Army. After his discharge he lived in a rented room across from the barracks.

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You presume correctly. He's still alive at the moment so I hear. As for the question of murder, by calling himself an actor he's been getting away with murder for a good forty years. Mind you, the reason he's around today and living free is because he got away with murder in the first place. Bless you Lizel Reese.
Leslie Michael Grantham (30 April 1947 – 15 June 2018) was an English actor, best known for his role as "Dirty" Den Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

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Old 03-04-20, 10:41 AM
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Private Arthur (Nick) Carter, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Served from 1901 to 1951. Saw active service in the Boer War and the Great War. Awarded 10 Good Conduct Stripes. According to the Light Infantry website, the most ever awarded in the British Army. After his discharge he lived in a rented room across from the barracks.

Pte Carter makes Pte Sheffield look a young sprog - the latter must've joined up around 1909, only had 42 years in by 1951.
Hadn't even got his knees brown.

I think there are images showing more good conduct chevrons being worn by old soldiers but in some instances they're wearing more than their length of service entitles them to.
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