A BADGE FOR ANZACS
SUGGESTIONS TO DEFENCE MINISTER. . i Mr -,C; I- Rarf (Eden) asked the Minister of Defence why the men of the Main Body and, tho first bodies, of reinforce.ments who endured the horrors and hardthe Gallippji campaign were not .permitted to wear some special badge, as was done with tho Australian Anzacs, who, it was understood, by Army regulation were all allowed to wear the special .letter "A" (csyinoting Anzac) on the shoulder-strap; and whether he did not think that some recognition in this shape of the 'heroic and special work of tho New Zealand Anzacs should not be made, and so bring New Zealand into line with Australia? Sir James Allen replied that investigation was being mode to ascertain 5f any Army regulation existed authorising the wearing of tho badges referred to in The question.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 7
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139A BADGE FOR ANZACS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 7
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