The rebels reasoned that the onlywayto ever be freeof a lifetime ofmilitaryservice for the gloryof the empire was to dedicate their lives to fighting against them.
Other Berkshire recipients include former Wokingham mayor and councillor Annette Drake, who has received a British Empire Medal (BEM) for her public and voluntary service to the community, and Anthony Hopkins, from Sandhurst, associate director of day care services at Broadmoor Hospital, who has also been awarded a BEM, for services to nursing.
He has built a vast, but shaky, empire on cut-rate services--in airlines, Internet service, car rentals, online shopping, credit cards, music downloads, a movie theater, bus service and on and on.