He explained that the medals were a gift from his father and he used them as his real ones had been sent away to have the Diamond Jubilee Medal added.<\/p>\n
He said he borrowed the mess uniform from someone else and it had the King\u2019s badge on it and he was aware of its significance.<\/p>\n
‘I knew I was not a sergeant. It was a private wedding and I never thought the photos would see the light of day,’ he told the court.<\/p>\n
But the court martial panel of three Royal Navy officers found him guilty of the charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the age of the internet, nothing is not going to “see the light of day”. The court martial fined him \u00a3300. His little story about those being his father’s medals falls apart because he bought them on the internet and had them engraved.<\/p>\n
In a written statement read to the court martial, Regimental Sergeant Major Joseph Gillespie said: \u2018When I asked Corporal Barnett why he had worn the medals and uniform, he said he \u201cwanted to look good in front of his family and big himself up\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I guess that didn’t work out so well for him. It looks like he only succeeded in “smalling himself down”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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