A formal presentation was organised after medals were sent through the ... Grapple saw a series of British nuclear weapons tests carried out close to Christmas Island, in the Pacific Ocean ...

Roger Filby's silver medal features an atom surrounded by olive branches An 85-year-old veteran has received a medal for his involvement in nuclear weapons testing on Christmas Island. Roger Filby ...

Brian Cantle, from Bedfordshire, was 21 when he was sent to Christmas Island ... were going to do there - due to the covert nature of the programme. Mr Cantle, now 87, has been awarded a Nuclear ...

Three nuclear ... test veterans have been awarded their medal for their service during the H-bomb explosions 65 years ago. Terry Quinlan, 84, Ian Kury, 86, and Ray Porter, 88, were on Christmas ...

and before the bomb went off we were told to sit with our back to the detonation." Britain's nuclear testing programme in the area of Christmas Island was called Operation Grapple, but Mr Gotts ...

It has taken 65 years or more, but three veterans of Britain’s Nuclear Test ... servicemen on Christmas Island were just teenagers Research has shown that the children of test veterans were ...

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called for a public inquiry into the Christmas Island nuclear bomb ... and materials and they were sent back to the UK for testing and analysis.” ...

Derbyshire veterans who conducted nuclear ... were presented with medals on Friday. Image caption, Operation Grapple saw a series of atomic and hydrogen bomb tests in the late 1950s at Christmas ...