Daily Mail - Mon 14th Nov.

[10ClarionSt]

Anyone who bought the Daily Mail on Monday would have read about Remembrance Sunday on page 10.

The last few paragraphs were comments from our association chairman, David Woodcock about HM Ships, Glorious, Ardent and Acasta.

We were disappointed not to be given a mention on the BBC as it was the first time we had taken part in the parade at the Cenotaph.

Even 65 years after the battle, I believe it would still be embarrassing for someone to make reference to the loss of these ships.

[spinchimp]

Whats the question here?

[jake-the-peg]

I think that you're taking things a bit far to interpret this as a deliberate ommission, there were an awful lot of groups and if you didn't get a mention on your first attendance I hardly think you can sensibly see it as a snub.

There are a lot of embarassing incidents in war - Glorious, Ardent and Acasta are probably no more so than say the loss of Hood at anchor at Scapa.

If you want a really politically embaressing loss consider the French secretly aiding the Argentinians to commission the exocets that hit the Sheffield in the Falklands.

[Drusilla]

I didn't know anything about these events until your recent posts on AB. Having read up on them, I can understand the concern of veterans and believe you're owed a debt of gratitude, because having been informed, I doubt I will forget what happened and that after all, is the point of Remembrance Day. Thank you.

[jake-the-peg]

Your absolutely right, I don't know why I wrote the Hood, I was thinking of the Royal Oak. I ought to know having dived Scapa though obviously not the Royal Oak.

Pretty embaressing to have a U-boat sail right into Scapa and sink her.

My point still stands though, that there are a lot of embaressing things and conspiacies waiting to come out of the closet between 2039 and 2045 when the 100 year rule expires but I doubt that the net extends quite as far as the BBC not mentioning you.

I mean they actually have an small page on their website here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/scharnhorst_05.shtml