Talk:Pip, Squeak and Wilfred

Origins

I feel that there is a lot of forgotten history here. A "pipsqueak" is an insignificant person", just as the three medals, occurring as part of splendid groups, are very common, almost ubiquitous. We need ideally to find why the cartoon strip was so named. "Pip" is certainly "P" in some phonetic alphabets. As in "pip emma". used to make certain that A.M. and P.M. are not confused.(There is a WW1 tale of a message received as 'Send three and fourpence - we are going to a dance' as a result of bad 'phone lines; the intention being 'Send reinforcements - we are going to advance'). There were many phonetic alphabets, possibly 'S' and 'W' were Squeak and Wilfred in one. Or the letters may be a shortened form of medal name - P for Peace Medal, S for Star or Service Medal, W for War medal, or something similar. But not apparently a mnemonic for the correct order in which they should be worn. However, " 'Pip' describes two separate campaign medals, the 1914 Star and the 1914-15 Star (the former more commonly if incorrectly referred to as the 'Mons Star'). Holders of the 1914 Star were not eligible for the 1914-15 Star, thus only one could be held at once. 'Squeak' was the named used to describe the British War Medal; and the Inter-Allied Victory Medal was referred to as 'Wilfred' (the medal was also simply referred to as the Victory Medal or the Allied War Medal)." When only the British War Medal and Victory Medal are on display together they are sometimes known as “Mutt and Jeff” 122.61.103.6 (talk) 20:19, 27 May 2016 (UTC)