Yet another councillor makes his way to our hallowed pages in the form of Cllr Joshua King or Mr Giles King on the electoral roll.

It’s been only a few months since our last respectable pillar of the community Peter Jackson who was the elected councillor and Mayor of Otley.

Until the WMHCHQ exposed him for self awarding himself a Queens Gallantry award, claiming to have served as an RMP in the Falklands war and like Jackson, King thought he could do the same…..until now.

King was brought to our attention by residents of Wroughton near Swindon after the 40th Falklands anniversary parade was held in the village.

A few keen eyes noted his MM and no rosette on his SAM ribbon. when asked his platoon and army number he claimed he could not remember due to his PTSD.

He was also heard questioning the authenticity of veterans at the parade who asked which naturally angered genuine veterans. A common trait used by Walter Mittys as a means of deflection.

King is a cllr for the Wroughton Parish Council. Which is a very important job and carries a lot of responsibility as King pointed out Feb this year. So before the WOKE brigade start crying how horrible the WMHCHQ are for exposing him with his conditions just remember, He’s obviously deemed fit enough by the council to make such important decisions for his community!

King had bragged several times on the local Facebook pages and local Swindon Advertiser about his exploits in the Falklands and NI over the years, so was encouraged to lead the Falklands Parade.

He claimed he was awarded the MM during the Falklands and was with L/Cpl Gary Bingley who was KIA during Kings alleged Heroism that day. Which means he was with 11 Platoon, D Coy, 2 Para at the time.

Gaz was Posthumously awarded the MM for his actions The citation published in the London Gazette records:

“Throughout 28th May 1982, the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment were engaged in fierce fighting to take well entrenched enemy positions in ‘the area of the Goose Green settlement on the Island of East Falkland. Lance Corporal Bingley was a Section Commander. During the battle his section came under fire at close quarters from two enemy machine-gun posts. To destroy the enemy positions he led his section in the assault and whilst leading was fatally wounded. His heroic action enabled his company to continue their advance and was significantly instrumental in defeating the enemy.”

Lance Corporal Bingley died on 28 May 1982, aged 24 years old. His ashes are buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire.

Only problem for King and his claims In 1983 the battalion served a six month tour in Belize.

There was no Belfast Barracks in Northern Ireland and 2 Para did not deploy to NI until October 84.

Belfast Barracks was in Osnabrook Germany.

The press soon picked up on the story and the WMHCHQ knew it would only be a matter of time before the real truth was known. We gave King one last chance to rectify the lies he told to the press and for Wroughton Parrish Council to give the honest truth to its constants. But alas. Nothing.

TWMHCHQ has seen the same burying of bad news by embarrassed councils before and no matter how much they claim it’s being sorted, nothing is ever mentioned again. We have also seen first hand how Councillors have influence with the local press to suppress bad news when it suits them.

No Records of a Basic Parachute Course attendance.

Link to Kings profile

As you can see there’s no record of seven service people KIA on the same day or location during the year King claims.

We checked via our contacts and under year King claims to have joined the Parachute regiment no records exist of him having served in an operational Parachute Battalion.

No records of P Company attendance

As if he's used that as his cover photo... Got the Walt part right.

As much as we would not wish such a serious condition on anyone. In this case It’s self inflicted!

If your going to put yourself through so much stress in the first place trying to maintain a lie after lying to everyone around you for years and even to the press then it’s going to bite you in the arse sometime.

Disgraced councillor who lied about being war veteran ‘suffers stroke due to stress'

We may sound callous but we know the signs and avoidance tricks from over 10 years of exposing Walter Mitty types. We could write a text book on the behaviour. The Parrish Council moved fast to try and prevent embarrassment from unfolding but not the first time they were warned.

We then turned to his claim of King being involved in an Ambush were several members of the Regiment were KIA in Northern Ireland while serving with 2 Para in 1985. Read Link

Armed with his DOB. Full name and unit he claims to have severed with and when awarded his MM we did our thing.

Firstly the London Gazette

In total, some 71 gallantry awards for actions in the Falklands campaign were made to attached personnel, members of The Parachute Regiment and former members on service with other units and only 14 were awarded the MM and Joshua King is not listed.

We double checked with the London Gazette and no trace of King under his details could be found.

This would mean seven members of the Parachute regiment were KIA in the same location due to Hostile action. Which would have been headline news, yet not one article or reference could be found.

The list of all soldiers who died during 1985 on Op Banner can be found online in official records published by the MOD after a freedom of information request.

After he made the National press Apparently he’s had a stroke because of all the stress according to his wife during a very short conversation on his doorstep.

However King was located just as quick and the page updated 1:30 am the following morning. Some will see it as a cry for help, but we have seen this many times before when someone knows their lies could be exposed so use desperate means to gain sympathy.

We have seen this trick before. Graeme Monk Basically give the impression they’re going to do something stupid but leave enough bread crumbs to be found safe, he’s not the only one!

Swindon Advertiser

Had King not used the death of a parachute Regiment soldier KIA during the Falklands or the fictional contact in Northern Ireland and subsequent fictional deaths of seven Paratroopers to inflate his ego. We may have allowed his thinly self pitiful apology go to the Vault.

However, he chose to insult those who paid the ultimate sacrifice 40 years ago.

He chose to award himself medals and a beret he had never earned and had simply bought off EBay along with regimental beret and tie.

To keep his lie he was willing to publicly cast doubt on veterans who suspected his lie.

In short he was willing to label genuine veterans as being fake and in his capacity of being a Parrish Councillor his word would have carried some weight.

Our decision to fully expose will not be popular with some, but we do this for the veterans Kings actions have insulted.

There needs to be a stolen Valour law as a deterrent. At the very least such a law will make the likes of King to think twice before embarrassing himself.

After the dust had settled and as suspected had no intention of posting an open statement on his page, but had managed to change his name and profile on Facebook. Bet he wished he could get in that time machine!

A few updates. Turns out the Parrish Council were made aware of his antics over two years ago and simply ignored and humiliated those we raised the issue.

The walt has now changed his name back to his original and both walt and Parrish Council are still trying to brush it under the carpet without a full and frank disclosure of the facts to the locals who have a right to know the truth.

Some Councillors are active in punishing veterans for speaking out and names will be made public. The Wroughton Parish Council are now treating veterans airing their views as the villains in this and banning veterans for airing their views.

Those who know us well, know we won’t let it go!

Happy Armed Forces Day.

The press got a whiff of our exposure and soon followed it up

King then went missing for a few hours from 9 pm and police were alerted very quickly.

Not one veteran could recall such an ambush in Northern Ireland where only four out of a 11 man patrol survived. It just never happened. He made the whole thing up. Another insult to the sacrifice and professionalism of the men and women who served in NI. Just to furnish his ego.

Cllr Joshua King of Swindon. You total Walter Mitty and disrespectful wankspangle

During the early hours the Cllr attempted to apologise for his actions but only on the comments and never once contacted the admin via PM. The admin attempted to reach out to King to advise him on how best to structure his apology to avoid a full exposure but he ignored us.

Kings mug shot and claims were seen amongst members of the Parachute regiment during the 40th Anniversary parade held in Aldershot last weekend and not one individual knew him. Particularly those who served in 2 Para D Company.

Some became quite angry and upset over his claims.

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