Hello, yes I have been rather busy.. dinner one night, function another and by the time I get home just no time for stamps. But it is Friday and I was determined to make the time for some stamps. Thank you for your emails and with apology for not replying. We are all busy I know..   this past week has just shot by.. seems ages ago that I was in London only last week..   could we slow the pace down a bit I wonder 

So for Military stamps. Have shown a few on this topic but these stamps were recently issued by Guernsey Post, [16th February actually] 

Hope you like them. Sorry they are not for a giveaway as I collect Guernsey. I will give a GB FDC to someone if you are able to tell me something about these stamps. For example 

From what war did the Victoria Cross originally come from; the war was from 1854-1856.  How easy is that .................

Some trivia which may interest you:  At the time only senior officers were awarded medals so QueenVictoria and Prince Albert ordered the War Office to design an appropriate medal. The prince suggested a name - the Victoria Cross for “an order of merit for distinguished and prominent personal gallantry to which every grade and individual from the highest to the lowest may be admissible.”  

These stamps commemorate six different wars, battles and conflicts in which this world-famous medal was awarded, showing medals from the troops involved in each action: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crimean War (68p); Rorke's Drift, Zulu War (47p); Gallipoli campaign, World War I (42p); El Alamein, World War II (38p); Falkland’s Conflict (34p); Iraq Conflict (29p).

The 29p value commemorates the most recent Victoria Cross awarded to Private Johnson Beharry of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Guernsey’s own adopted regiment).

So many difficult questions I could have asked but I am so kind I made it easy

Look forward to hearing from you.. best wishes.. enjoy your stamps.. Michael