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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
(Pte) A.H. DARVELL - Royal Anglian
1) 1939-45 Star
2) Defence Medal
3) War Medal
STOLEN
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact: Surrey Police - crime ref: C/03/17268
or
[email protected]
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
(Pte) A.H. DARVELL - Royal Anglian
1) British War Medal
2) Victory Medal
3) India General Service Medal
STOLEN
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact:
Surrey Police - crime ref: C/03/17268
or
[email protected]
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🚨This is well worth downloading - it is a v useful guide about the kind of supplies you and your household might need to be self sufficient for 72 hours in the event of an emergency - from a flood or a power cut to war:
beready.campaign.gov.uk/wp-c…
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On the night of 4 July 2010, Police Constable David Rathband was sitting alone in his marked patrol car when a gunman approached and opened fire. Within seconds, his life would change forever.
Born on 20 January 1968 in Stafford, David initially trained as a plumber before pursuing his ambition of becoming a police officer. After serving as a Special Constable, he joined Northumbria Police in 2000.
In 2006, he moved into traffic policing, a role he thoroughly enjoyed. He also trained as a Family Liaison Officer, supporting families who had lost loved ones in road traffic collisions.
Shortly before 12.45am on 4 July 2010, David was carrying out routine traffic duties at Denton Burn, Newcastle, when fugitive gunman Raoul Moat approached his patrol car.
Moat fired twice at close range, striking David in the head, face and shoulder. Despite his devastating injuries, David managed to radio for help. He survived the attack but permanently lost his sight in both eyes.
Determined to help others, David established the Blue Lamp Foundation to support emergency service personnel injured in the line of duty. In April 2011, despite his blindness, he completed the London Marathon to raise funds.
However, behind his public determination, David continued to struggle with the physical and psychological consequences of his injuries.
Tragically, on 29 February 2012, David died by suicide at his home in Blyth, Northumberland. He was just 44 years old.
Following his funeral in Stafford on 17 March, he was laid to rest in a private family burial.
In June 2012, his 13-year-old daughter Mia carried the Olympic torch blindfolded in tribute to her father, who had originally been selected as a torchbearer.
Today, his legacy continues through the Blue Lamp Foundation, helping emergency service workers and their families.
Remembering:
Police Constable David John Rathband
Northumbria Police — Motor Patrols
Call Sign: Tango 190
Born 20 January 1968
Died 29 February 2012, aged 44
Lest We Forget.
#DavidRathband #NorthumbriaPolice #PoliceMemorial #EmergencyServices #LestWeForget
What a both great, and depressing thread.
The UK, once the peerless seafaring power. Now, with bureaucracy, poor planning and seeming incompetence, the once mighty Royal Navy is a hollowed out shadow of it's former, glorious self.
Shame on all those complicit in the demise.
The Royal Navy in October 2026: A Paradox of Ambition and Decline
Views my own, comments, corrections and strong debate welcome.
1/25 The Royal Navy of late 2026 is a force of extremes. It operates two large aircraft carriers that are notionally operational, a small number of highly sophisticated Type 45 destroyers and Astute-class attack submarines, and a nuclear deterrent that has never broken Continuous At-Sea Deterrence. At the same time, the surface and subsurface fleets required to protect those carriers, sustain the deterrent and meet routine tasking are thinner, older and less available than at any point since 1945.
This is not the result of a single review or a sudden funding cut. It is the cumulative outcome of decisions stretching back to the late 1970s, accelerated by the 1998 Strategic Defence Review and deepened by the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
The Royal Navy has repeatedly chosen exquisite individual platforms over the numbers needed to keep them at sea, deferred hard choices on infrastructure, and operated under a culture in which responsibility is diffused until it disappears.
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You would think that after your various children had ended a night of being on a crime spree while riding in a stolen car and terrorising the local community, and ended that criminal rampage by driving that stolen 1.5-ton car at high speed the wrong way on a dual carriageway which ended with the obliteration of another car with two police officers inside who were travelling in the correct direction.
An obliteration that killed everyone in both cars As one of those parents you would think that you would feel a little guilt, a little responsibility, a little sadness!
Not only for your own child but for the children who were now fatherless directly because of your childs criminal stupidity.
You would think you would feel a world of regrets and a lot of "if onlys" and "what ifs." You would think you would be forced to take a good hard long look at yourselves and ask the questions of what you could have done better as a parent ! To own up to your own failings.
But oh no, not some of the parents and relatives of these young men. They are looking to cash in and blame everyone else but their feral wannabe gangsta, idiot children, who they couldn't be arsed to parent or discipline or teach the basic rights and wrongs of normal behaviour.
For them to say that the police should have called off the chase earlier in an attempt to detain their idiotic sons - who had been involved in several criminal incidents leading up to the police finally identifying the car that they were all packed into, and who then decided to goad the police into a high-speed pursuit?
The young men in that car had previously taunted police into chasing them in various vehicles a number of times before, knowing that if they drove at high speed in built-up areas or the wrong way on busy lanes, the police would end the pursuit. Which they would then film, gloating about it all on social media platforms while wearing balaclavas, making gun signs and torching the car.
Yet these so-called parents are pointing their fingers at the police, and I am sure they are already looking for a settlement while phoning the first "where there's a blame, there's a claim" advert they could find on the internet.
They were utter shit parents, and they are now proving they are utter shit human beings as well. They deserve every bit of ridicule and condemnation that they are receiving. They can't even do the right thing by their children in death. That's how utterly fucking useless they are.
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
35410 (Pte) S. RAPHAEL - 6th Royal fusiliers
1) British War Medal
2) Victory Medal
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact: [email protected]
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
2135/ 657357 (Pte) T. McILWRAITH - Royal Scots/Labour Corps
1) 1914-15 Star
2) British war medal
3) Victory Medal
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact: [email protected]
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
9573/187188/21334 (Pte) A. WEBBER
1) 1914 Star
2) British war medal
3) Victory Medal
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact: [email protected]
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🚨🔵🛑Sir Jim Ratcliffe on Manchester City financial breaches allegations.👀
🗣️Ratcliffe: "Let’s call a spade a spade, shall we? You look across town and you see this glittering empire, but the foundation is built on absolute financial fiction. We at Manchester United, for all our recent faults and boardroom incompetence over the last decade, generate our revenue because half the globe genuinely cares about the badge."
🗣️"City claim to have out-earned Real Madrid and United commercially, yet they play in a stadium they can barely fill for a Champions League knockout tie. It’s an insult to the intelligence of every football fan in the country."
🗣️"If you run a petrochemical company and cook the books to artificially bankrupt your competitors, the government steps in and people go to prison. In football, apparently, you just get to hire a fleet of lawyers and parade around on an open-top bus for ten years."
🗣️"The Premier League has to stop tiptoeing around this issue like a frightened child facing a state-backed bully."
🗣️"If those 115 charges are proven and frankly, the sheer volume of smoke tells you exactly where the fire is a Nine Hundred-million-pounds fine or a temporary points deduction is a sick joke."
🗣️"You don't dock points. You strip the titles, you wipe the records, and you send them down to the National League where they can learn to balance a legitimate ledger against Halifax Town. Anything less is a permanent, terminal stain on the integrity of English football."
🗣️"I, for one, am entirely finished pretending their 'treble' wasn't bought on credit they never legally possessed."
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There is no evidence Sir Jim Ratcliffe said this. No credible interview, video, transcript or reputable report attributes these quotes to him, including the claims about relegating City to the National League.
Source: Reuters
reuters.com/sports/soccer/…
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
(Pte) G. BECKINGHAM - Queen`s Royal West Surry Regt.
Indian General Service Medal
STOLEN MEDALS
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact: Surrey Police - crime ref: C/03/17268
or
[email protected]
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
R. THOMPSON - HMS Hermes.
South Atlantic Medal
STOLEN MEDAL
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact:
Stainbeck Police, Leeds - crime ref: AC0616234
or
[email protected]
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
(Cpl) J. CRAWFORD - 31st Huntingdonshire Regt.
Cabul Medal
STOLEN MEDALS
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact: Surrey Police - crime ref: C/03/17268
or
[email protected]
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LOST, STOLEN & WANTED Medals
(Pte) F.C. CRAWFORD - East Surrey Regt.
1) Military Medal
2) 1914-15 Star
3) British War Medal
4) Victory Medal
STOLEN MEDALS
Any information to the whereabouts of the medal please contact: Surrey Police - crime ref: C/03/17268






























