BATTLE HONOURS
'• I ■ "■ ■ Wiffl- MEDALS AS A SPUR. TO SERVE. ■
Straight of back, and still keeneyed, Veteran H. Walton (late of His Majesty's Navy), his breast ablaze with War medals from side to side, was an interested delegate at the conference of His Majesty's Veterans held in the Town Hall yesterday morning. A discussion was in progress on pensions, •war medals, eto., when the Btalwart told .sailor rose to state how valuable war medals were for purpose of engendering a proper spirit of loyalty and servioe. i Mr. Walton stated that tone, of hia grandsons had come to him one day to ask if he did not have some jnedals. He had taken them out and shown them to the-boy, who, fired with the spirit of emulation, had B&id, "I'm going to get some when I get a chance!" That boj had Bince served in South Africa, in. Samoa with the 'first lot of troops, and later served in (France, where he had died. That was the incentive war medals gave a man. : Mr. Walton served in the Navy when "our ships were British oak," and saw a good deal of active service in the Baltic and China Seas.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2911, 25 October 1916, Page 5
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199BATTLE HONOURS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2911, 25 October 1916, Page 5
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