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Lt. Col Paddy Mayne

EDM number 317 in 2005-06, proposed by Ian Gibson on 14/06/2005.

That this House recognises the grave injustice meted out to Lt Col Paddy Mayne, of 1st, SAS, who won the Victoria Cross at Oldenburg in North West Germany on 9th April 1945; notes that this was subsequently downgraded, some six months later, to a third bar DSO, that the citation had been clearly altered and that David Stirling, founder of the SAS has confirmed that there was considerable prejudice towards Mayne and that King George VI enquired why the Victoria Cross had `so strangely eluded him'; further notes that on 14th December it will be 50 years since Col Mayne's untimely death, in a car accident, and this will be followed on 29th January 2006 by the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Royal Warrant to institute the Victoria Cross; and therefore calls upon the Government to mark these anniversaries by instructing the appropriate authorities to act without delay to reinstate the Victoria Cross given for exceptional personal courage and leadership of the highest order and to acknowledge that Mayne's actions on that day saved the lives of many men and greatly helped the allied advance on Berlin.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ian Gibson14/06/2005Norwich NorthLabourProposed
Bob Spink15/06/2005Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Lindsay Hoyle15/06/2005ChorleyLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore15/06/2005HendonLabourSeconded
Stephen Hepburn15/06/2005JarrowLabourSeconded
Gregory Campbell15/06/2005East LondonderryDUPSeconded
Jim Dobbin15/06/2005Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley15/06/2005Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Martin Caton16/06/2005GowerLabourSigned
Rudi Vis16/06/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Mike Hancock16/06/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer16/06/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins16/06/2005TamworthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins16/06/2005Luton NorthLabourSigned
Iris Robinson16/06/2005StrangfordDUPSigned
Greg Pope16/06/2005HyndburnLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn20/06/2005Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Simpson21/06/2005Upper BannDUPSigned
Frank Cook21/06/2005Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Ben Wallace21/06/2005Lancaster and WyreConservativeSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson22/06/2005Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Lady Hermon22/06/2005North DownUUPSigned
Albert Owen22/06/2005Ynys MLabourSigned
Alan Simpson30/06/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/07/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Richard Bacon04/07/2005South NorfolkConservativeSigned
Mark Williams04/07/2005CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Fisher05/07/2005Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
Kate Hoey07/07/2005VauxhallLabourSigned
Eric Illsley12/07/2005Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Kerry McCarthy12/07/2005Bristol EastLabourSigned
Peter Robinson18/07/2005Belfast EastDUPSigned
Norman Lamb20/07/2005North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Beith21/07/2005Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Brooks Newmark21/07/2005BraintreeConservativeSigned
Tony Baldry10/10/2005BanburyConservativeSigned
Sammy Wilson10/10/2005East AntrimDUPSigned
Christopher Huhne11/10/2005EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Francis12/10/2005AberavonLabourSigned
Anthony D Wright28/10/2005Great YarmouthLabourSigned
Natascha Engel07/11/2005North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Simon Burns09/01/2006West ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
Grant Shapps26/01/2006Welwyn HatfieldConservativeSigned
David Anderson15/03/2006BlaydonLabourSigned

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