User talk:Eldamorie/Archives/2011/February

BASTILLE DAY

Thanks for the necessary and correct edit to my own attempt to include material within the article that is entitled Bastille Day, under 'Bastille Day Military Parade' (rightly or wrongly so entitled, perhaps, given the nature of the relationship of 14 July in general to French and European history, which includes a number of other official names besides 'Bastille Day', even if all of course ultimately connected to the historical origin in 1789). May I just have one comment to add on this Talk Page, but not elsewhere? Certainly, the First World War ended under common law in 1919, but this was under that 'traditional' or historic law in the United Kingdom; otherwise it can (I suggest) be said to have ended in 1918, in accordance incidentally with one of the medals issued after the war to all military personnel within this country and the inter-allied Victory Medal as issued elsewhere by those who wished to issue it under the provisions of the Peace Conference (it is also for instance the date given on the Scottish National War Memorial which memorial was nonetheless, as stated on the website in question, opened on the anniversay of the Victory Parade in 1919, in accordance with the Inter-Allied Victory Medal as issued by the British Empire, which, uniquely, carries '1919'). Again, so far as the 'official' (that is 'Parliamentary') date of the end of the war is concerned, is this not perhaps in 1921 under an Order in Council, with a wartime Act of Parliament conferring statutory powers together with the exercise of an existing royal prerogrative upon His Majesty in Council? But I leave everything, Sir, the way you edited it on the 21st (for the rest as I say very well indeed, and teaching me perhaps a certain lesson in writing ...). Peter Judge 24 February 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.71.135 (talk) 13:00, 24 February 2011 (UTC)