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Name:
Janice Maciver
Service Connection:
Army Veteran (Intelligence Corps) – directly discharged because of the ban in 1994
Date of visit:
27 October 2025
“The LGBT+ Armed Forces Memorial unveiling by HM The King has to be a real highlight in my life. A day I never thought I would live to see. I feel that was the day I finally managed to put what happened to me behind me and move into a new reality of being “just a veteran” and I can’t tell you how ‘normal’ that feels. At last I feel at peace.”
Name:
Catriona Wallace
Service Connection:
Former Royal Navy, discharged during the ban
Date of visit:
27 October 2025
“Whilst the Prime Minister had publicly apologised in Parliament for the ban, it meant nothing to me and the reparations were just that, hollow reparations, but when the Senior Royal himself took the time to speak to me, I felt he was genuine and maybe the state apologies did mean something after all. His parting words to me, said with a smile- ‘Submariners ….. special people’ – finally validated that part of my life because I was special, in ways they never could neither understand nor accept.”
