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Given that this year is the 60th anniversary of the end of WW2, it might have been a good idea to have put piccy of the WW2 leaders on stamps, or even better, bank notes. Bomber Harris on the back of a ten quid note, with Viscount Slim on the back of a twenty,would go down well, I think (although possibly not with our German and Japanese tourist visitors)

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I wouldn’t mind the idea of a set of commemorative Stamps…I hope that when Gayle becomes involved in the thread and I value her opinion in the same respectful way as anyone else’s. I do hope that there will be Photographs of our war time leaders on display both civil as well as Military at the VE-VJ celebrations……………

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My vote for someone to go on a commerative stamp would be Alan Turing. His breaking of the U-boat Enigma code helped save hundreds if not thousands of lives in the Battle of the Atlantic. He is also regarded of the father of modern computing and early software design. Sadly he took his own life because of his homosexuality in 1954, when we lived in a less tolerant society than today.

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They do have quite a nice statue of him, sitting on a bench in the middle of a little park in the centre of Manchester.

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Turing, Barnes Wallis and the likes of Frank Whittle are all unsung heroes of war, like many others that worked ceaselessly and unselfishly for there country and people and never sought publicity other than to promote funding for there good work. There are many others to be yet identified who did just as much…….can we keep sexuality out of this one please…………

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I also agree that Churchill was a great wartime leader, but my Great Grandfather, veteran of the Boar War and WWI, never forgave him for s***ing on the working man in the Great Strike. Also he's already featured on a set of stamps in 1965 the year I was born.

I have seen the statue of Turing, I think I tried to talk to him when I was tipsy once.

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Just stating a fact, that was the reason he gave in his suicide note. My Grandfather died in the same war aged twenty two to give me the freedom to state the fact. Sorry if it offends you, i'm not making an issue of it.

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[QUOTE=garinda]I also agree that Churchill was a great wartime leader, but my Great Grandfather, veteran of the Boar War and WWI, never forgave him for s***ing on the working man in the Great Strike. Also he's already featured on a set of stamps in 1965 the year I was born.


And your point is? Did not Mrs Thatcher do the same? Win a war and then fought against the people…its called politics….

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In the General Election following the war, the British public showed their thanks by voting against him. Typically British.

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I regularly have a chat with him about how the match went, round about 6.45 on a Saturday when I'm wending my way home from the IES. He's a good listener.

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We are, you asked me to keep sexuality out of it, I thought the reason for his his taking his own life was relevant re: freedom, that's all.

Off thread sorry, A-b said we hadn't been invaded since 1066 in another thread which I can't find. This was true for mainland Britain, though of course Jersey was invaded and occupied by Germans in 1940.

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Turing did not leave a suicide note; although the cause of death was an apple contaminated with arsenic, the motive behind his death remains a mystery and one theory is that he was dealt with by the security forces because like a lot of gays he was a major security risk (think Burgess, Maclean, Blunt). He had also been convicted of a crime 2 years previously.