MILLIONS OF MEDALS.
I M r Churchill’s aiinounocn.ent that I eight millions of v, ar medals and si.x ? a lid a-ha if millions of Victory medals | will be issued foreshadow.' a busy time j lor the 3iii!t and a vast consumption of silver. It may l*e assumed that tlie s medals will be of silver and not of now £ coinage alloy {says the ‘‘Daily Chron- > iele M .) When the seamen of Xclson as I fleet after Trafalgar were presented with pewter medals they indignantly threw them overboard. For a hundred years the British service medal lias been of silver, and has been bestowed upon all ranks alike. The army owes that to ihe Duke of Wellington, who. after Waterloo, wrote home suggesting that such a mesial should be issued. Before then .Peninsular medals had been granted to the higher ranks'Of oilicers only and gold.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 30 June 1920, Page 4
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144MILLIONS OF MEDALS. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 30 June 1920, Page 4
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