THE WAR RIBBONS
IMPERIAL MED VL AND ALLIES' MEDAL. Specimens of the Imperial AVnr Medal ribbon and of the Allies' War Medal ribbon have been received in Wellington. The majority of the New Zealand soldiers who have seen service abroad will be entitled to wear both these ribbons after the issue of the medals has boen announced, but no authority has yet been Kiven.
The ribbon of the Imperial AVar Medal has a watered gold centre, with bands of white, black, and blue at (lie tides. It is a distinctive pattern.
The Allies' ribbon combines the colours of nil tho Allies, and is not likely to bo confused with any other ribbon. It has no fewer than twenty narrow bands of colour, in tho following order:—lied, white, blue, red, green, red, yellow, green, red, blue, white, red, yellow, black, red, white, green, red, white, blue.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 249, 15 July 1919, Page 4
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145THE WAR RIBBONS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 249, 15 July 1919, Page 4
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