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War medal is sent in the post to Eddie
AT LAST: The medal has arrived at Eddies home through the post
THE son of a war veteran who has been trying to get his father awarded a campaign medal for his time in the Second World War has been successful.
Earlier this week, the Isle of Man Examiner reported Eddie Power’s campaign on behalf of his father, Richard, who lives in Devon.
Eddie, from Ballasalla, wrote to British Prime Minister David Cameron calling for his father to receive the Italy Star for his services with the Foreign Office’s Political Intelligence Department.
On Wednesday, Eddie was astonished when he opened the post.
He said: ‘The Italy Star Campaign Medal arrived this morning, via the postman, through the door of my Ballasalla home. ‘The packet was a simple brown padded envelope nothing on it to show what it might contain. Nor had I had any communication from any UK department to say it was on the way.
‘I opened the packet and found a small box containing the Medal and ribbon and a card with compliments from the Under Secretary of State for Defence and by Command of the Defence Council has the Honour to transmit the enclosed award granted for service during the war of 1939-45.’
He said that two years ago his son Andrew took his grandfather’s war memorabilia to Ballasalla Primary School, and he came home and said a number of people had asked if his grandfather had any medals.
Eddie looked in to it and found he was entitled to have a campaign medal.
That was when the battle with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office started.
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