Castleshort and Order of Vitez

Subject:	Castleshort and Order of Vitez
Date:	Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:17:25 +0000

Document 1:

'The Director General [of the International Bodyguard Association, the
Baron James Shortt of Castleshort,] was awarded the Order of the Vitez
Rend in 2004 for his active role in the dismantling of communism
government in Easteran and Central Europe. The DG was an invited guest
at the the Vitez Rend dinner in 1999 held at the Carlton Club in London.
Laslo Vitez Hunyadi, Captain General of the Vitez Rend during the ball
made the appointment of The Baron Castleshort as the Order's
representative to International Commissions of Chivalry.'
http://ibahq.blogspot.com/

Document 2:

'To Whom It May Concern.

This is to state that the person known to me as Baron James Shortt of
Castleshort received a decoration from the then Grand Captain of the
Order of Vitez in London in 2003 (sic).

He subsequently asked to be considered for Hon Membership of the Order
which I turned down on 8th July 2003.

He is, thus, not a ordinary or honorary member of the Order of Vitez as
registered in Hungary by The Metropolitan Court of Budapest No: 4227,
Issue No: 14.Pk.68 060/43.

Dr Andrew v Zsigmond de Lemheny.
Deputy Grand Captain (External)'
http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/p=3132954.html

This is reminiscent of the now exploded claim to have been 'created a
Knight Commander of St Gregory by Pope John Paul II in recognition for
his work in towards moving the Cold War to an end'
(http://www.ibabodyguards.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=47)
But what specific decoration did the Baron receive from the Order of
Vitez and in what year?

Sean Murphy
Irish Chiefswatch
http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Eseanjmurphy/chiefs/chiefswatch.htm