GALLIPOLI HEROES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 62, 6 December 1917, Page 6

GALLIPOLI HEROES

Sir, —I read with great pleasure your leader on the above, una thoroughly endorse all you stated, which 1 am sure, will be agreed to by all who teolv part in the Uallipoli campaign. ( have the honour to state Mat 1 am the father of two sons who volunteered to do their bit for the Empire. One went with the Third llemtorcemcnts, took part in many engagements, ana was returned wounded—m seven placts -to New Zealand, and discharged unlit for further military use. Now, s«, is he to be one that will li.ot renci e the star? My other son joined to N.Z. Force in England at the commencement of the war, an i« amongst the first who landed in the Dardanelles. After serving over five months he caught enteric, aind was returned to New Zealand and dischai.ied (he has since joined the 1M.0.). I s he also not to receive the star. live )- one who read the conditions laid down by tho War Office, entitling some to git the star, all cry. shame on the authors of the regulation. It y. 11.end this way-that unless all entitled to it. get it, it will be refused, as it would be' an emblem of disgracc.to wear it. —I am, etc., JUSHCL. Wellington, Dec. 4., 1917.