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Petition update, 27 November 2009

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A serving member of the Armed Forces can buy a concession card which offers rail travel at a reduced rate. Once they are discharged at a percentage disability of less than 80% they lose this valuable assistance.

Many disabled ex servicemen and women are restricted in their earning potential and there is a real need for concessions on a much wider front.

Various national campaigns are gathering pace to rectify this unfair situation.

These are to be applauded, but their proposals can sometimes be too prescriptive and definitions of qualification could in time, prove to be too narrow and complicated.

I would not like to see a solution which was anomalous or lead to potential abuse.

Therefore, I would like your support in bringing this situation to the attention of those with the power to act, with a view to making whatever concessions are practicable.

The minimum solution should be an extension of the forces railcard system which has already set a precedent and has an established administrative system.

The perfect and most generous solution would be a nationwide extension of the free travel card for disabled veterans which is currently available within the London area

Current signatories

Clive Richards, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Mike Richards
• neil ballantyne
• Matthew Maxwell
• Roger Chadbourne
• patrick hearne
• Martin Grixoni
• Nick Jupp
• Frederick G Thompson
• Peter Helsby
• Matthew Thomson
• Michael Euridge
• Jim Ashlin
• Bernard Rowland
• Penny Robson
• John Challen
• Richard Madeley
• Sally Sedgman
• Nigel porter
• P. Williams-Jones (Ex RM)
• Russell Steele
• BPW Radford
• John M. Allistone
• John Sirett
• David Pickett
• carole merry
• John Capito
• Fiona Challen
• Rowan Jackson
• George Martin
• James Tappin
• Keith Robson
• Clive French
• Jon Delorme
• Alastair Rogers
• John Cook
• STUART BEATTIE FORMER ROYAL MARINE
• William McRae
• Raymond T Mead
• derrick white
• Richard Hall
• Paul Juleff
• kyle noel
• Beth hepworth
• Peter Booker
• Henry Rising
• Henry Collis
• Ian Lancaster
• Gemma Robson
• Terence A. Norris
• Richard Davis
• Mark Richards
• Richard Hutchings
• Tony Underwood
• Ronald Gibson
• Neil Curtis
• Leslie Wright
• Frances Dalton
• Ivar Mountbatten
• Tom Allchurch
• Mark Harman
• Vincent Carrington
• Peter Allison
• John Russell
• David Cosford
• Ian Longworth (Ex RM)
• Laura Hearnshaw
• Deborah Scott
• Camilla Sandars
• Gordon Duthie Buky-Webster
• jennifer Scott
• Patrick Knox
• Elizabeth Mason(potential RM mother)
• Andrew Bath
• kevin ware(ex RM)
• Jillian Dawson
• ann leach
• Derek McConnachie
• Clare Lobb
• Jeremy V V Parker
• Robert Forward
• KW Hannah
• Dick Woolhead (Ex RM)
• Ian Turnbull (Ex RM)
• John Curl
• jim davidson
• mark kay
• James R Landells ex RM
• Roy Wilson
• David Turner ( former RM )
• Adam Giles-Wilson
• Chris Stubbings (former RM)
• william kelleher
• Raymond Hines (former RM)
• Graham Bannister
• Gail Swankie
• Michael John White
• Stuart Fidler
• Cynthia Fidler
• David G Brooks
• Neville Davies
• Christopher Lean
• Leeming A
• Geoffrey Kneller
• Christine Skeldon
• Michael J. A. Lepper
• Geoff Marshall (ex CRE)
• Jayne Sullivan
• John R. French
• Ronald B. Barrass
• garth sutherland
• Philip Mckenzie
• Ashley Tyrrell (Ex RM)
• Pat Beck
• james hickinbottom
• arthur heaton
• Robert Fulton
• Chris Townsend (ex RM)
• Brian Clark
• Edward Dixon (Former RM)
• Ian Campbell R.M. (Retd)
• Finlay McCulloch
• James Avenell
• Colonel Brian Carter
• Alan J Wright
• Mark Murray
• J. Ashman
• Ian Spencer
• Dan Richmond (ex RM)
• Danny Marshall former RM
• Ron Hooper
• Elizabeth McCutcheon
• Tony Jerrard
• KEVIN MORGAN
• John Fryatt (Ex RM)
• Alan Walker
• M E Mead
• Stephen Ellis
• Jim Dunn (Former RM)
• D T Abbott
• jerry slater
• Paul Hartley
• Anthony Male Royal Marines Ass
• Iain Alan Wilson
• Victor Johnston (ex RM)
• Barry Alexander
• Ken Taylor
• Chris Goode
• DOUGLAS ANTHONY CLAYTON
• John Hulse-Ward.Ex Cpl RM
• john Higley
• John Kilroy
• Neil Cameron
• Mike Warren
• Michael Wills Ex RM
• elizabeth Turnbull
• Alex Dewar
• Guy Sheridan RM Retd
• Danny Shepherd
• Peter Yates
• Mr Don REID
• K HAYWARD
• Jim Baulf
• DONNIE MCLEOD RM(Retd)
• Terry COX Former Royal Marines
• Michael Phillips
• Bruce Chapman
• Keith Sanders
• ROY JONES
• Robin Evernden
• peter hodges
• Ronald E whitmore.Ex RM.RMA>
• derek sheriff
• John Rawlings (Former R.M.)
• Mike Warrington (Ex RM)
• cliff watts ex RM
• David Brain
• Tim Bourne
• John Margetts ex RM
• Stephen Martin
• John M.C. Fleet
• Loretta Bunn
• Arthur Goodyer
• John Turner
• TYRONE POWER
• Ewen Southby-Tailyour, RM
• Lee James SEWELL
• Paul Meredith
• Alan Skilton
• Ken Dooney
• A.D.Howarth
• gordon caulfield
• Ronald Walkerdine
• william bennett
• WILLIAM MacEWAN
• Len Harman Ex RM
• David Storrie
• Alan Nicholson, Former Royal Marine
• Ronald Griffiths
• rory thomas
• Anthony Humphris
• R F Rivers
• George M Hayes
• David Tennison
• JIM BASSETT
• Roger Blundell
• Gerald Frank
• Tony Hewling WO2 RM Retd.
• Katerina Willson
• Jon Flint
• Janice Gillam
• david neale former soldier and airman
• Sadia Jama