Community Guidelines

Be decent. Be accurate. Protect people. Take the mickey, never the dignity. If you would not say it in a crew room full of people you respect, do not post it here.

Members come from different services, nations, generations and backgrounds. Disagreement is welcome; contempt is not. Harassment, threats, discrimination and personal attacks lead to removal.

No current deployments, locations, movements, capabilities, procedures, equipment performance or anything else that could put serving personnel at risk. This applies to serving members especially — and to anyone else who thinks they know something.

If in doubt, leave it out. We will always err on the side of removal.

Military humour is one of the reasons this community exists. Banter between comrades is fine. Targeting an individual, mocking bereavement, or using humour to exclude someone is not.

Only upload photographs you own or have permission to share. Get the agreement of living people shown in a photograph before publishing it, and be careful with images of the recently deceased — ask the family first.

Do not post photographs of serving personnel in a way that identifies where they are or what they do.

The Roll of Remembrance is not a place for argument, campaigning or settling old scores. Entries name people who can no longer answer for themselves, so be accurate, be generous and be brief where brevity serves them better.

Party politics, current conflicts debated as partisans, and national point-scoring between services do not belong here. History can be discussed; today's political arguments should be had elsewhere.

Some members are carrying a great deal. If someone says they are struggling, take it seriously and point them towards real support rather than trying to be it. If you are struggling yourself, tell someone today — a comrade, a veterans' helpline, or your GP.

If something worries you, report it through the contact page. Reports are read by a person, kept confidential, and never shown to the member reported.

Depending on seriousness: a quiet word, removal of the content, a warning, or an end to membership. For anything that endangers someone, membership ends immediately. You may ask us to review a decision, and a different person will look at it.