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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 September 1916, Page 3

The Gold Stripe of Courage « — The British War Office has decided to issue a special badge to men discharged after service with the colours. The gold stripe is not to be worn with civilian clothes, and the badge lor nil discharged men, while at will save our heroes in mufti, from such undeserved .reproaches as they have ■- jffered too 1 frequently, leaves tl'o nan who has been wounded without rccogiritkn. The "badge stands foir tho unifci'.r; something is wanted to cor vspci d to the sti'rpa A stripe will be given to mark each Dt.'t'iift'on o.'i which a man is wounde' — [in; co nwk each wound l.e A man may receive a dozen shrapnel wounds simultaneously. He will not receive «• stripe for every wound.Ihrec or four stripes will 1 u\vo a deeper significance than three of four wounds. They will mean that, undaunted, the hero has gone back to the fray not once but twice or thrice.

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