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LONDON - The British military will allow former service personnel who were stripped of medals because of their sexuality to apply to have them restored .
British personnel who were fired from the military for being LGBTQ+ will finally be able to have their service medals restored.
To coincide with LGBT History Month, Veterans minister Johnny Mercer has announced that former veterans will be invited to apply to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) if their honours were stripped away due to their sexuality.
“Gutted some of our people did not enjoy their time in the military as much as I did, and suffered serious injustice simply for being gay,” he said in a tweet.
“[The Office for Veterans’ Affairs] is resetting the UK’s relationship with her veterans, which includes this historic wrong.”