OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1928, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

ARMISTICE DAY

THE BRITISH .MEDALS

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY. Nov. 2,

The medal struck by the Royal Hint to commemorate the Armistice will be in two sizes. There will be a large silver medal, three inches in diameter, which will he sold at 30s and a large bronze medal, of the same size, at 10s. and there will lie a small bronze

medal, 1} inches in diameter, sold at

Is 9d. 'l'lie design of the modal lias Miocn chosen after a competition lietvvoen several well-known medallists. An official of the Mint savs: "We

have simply followed the example of the other countries which fought in the war. As they had a commemorative medal and we had not. we thought that the tenth anniversnrv of the

Armistice was a fitting opportunity to issue one. It- it new in British history. Never before lias such a medal been struck by the Mint after a war.” The Government was anxious that there should not he any jingo or vindictive air about the medal, and the designer has designed it accordingly. The sheathed sword and broken shackles of war were suggested hy the great phrase Lord Oxford uttered when Britain entered the Avar: "AVe shall not sheath the sword until justice has been done.”

The proceeds of the sales will be devoted to covering the cost of manufacture of the medals, ff there is any surplus it will go back to the Government.