VICTORIA CROSS EQUIVALENT FOR KUNO IN AFGHANISTAN

[Gil Boyd]

Nice photo mate. I spent many months at Keston with my inventions and thoughts on scents, thanks primarily to John Stevens who had lots of faith in me, leter to become Lord Stevens after the Met Commissioner. He was my immediate boss in Cambs when he first got promoted to ACC.
Not commonly known, he was a BOAC Pilot, and often invited me to the BA flight simulators at Heathrow on his return from the NI enquiry!!
Great to see your dad there with Major, he must have done Military service like me before the Police looking at his medals.

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[GeeRam]

Great to see your dad there with Major, he must have done Military service like me before the Police looking at his medals.

Yes, he joined the Army on Dec 7th 1944, a few months after his 18th birthday and just after his Home Guard unit had been stood down, and served in Germany just before the German surrender, and also did a 12 month tour in Palestine in 46 to 47 before being demobbed in March 1948. He was retained on the Z list of reserves through Korea and did his last 2 week training camp just before getting married to my Mum in 1953. He amazingly wore 4 different cap badges in his relatively short Army service (if you include the HG service)

When he retired from the Met in 1986, he was the last serving Constable who had seen WW2 service.