WAR MEDALS
BRITISH AND ALLIED DECORATIONS. EARLY ISSUE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 25. It is anticipated that the work of issuing the British medal to those who served in the war will be commenced within the next three, months and that the Allied Victory Medal will be available for distribution by the end of the year. Approximately 100,000 New Zealanders are eligible for both these medals, but the task of engraving and issuing them will involve an immense amount of administrative work, for the personal file of each name has to be scrutinised carefully by Base Records in order that the necessary data may be obtained. No decision has yet been arrived at in connection with clasps, but it is understood that there are to bo seven clasps for the Western front and three clasps for other theatres of war.
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Southland Times, Issue 18831, 26 May 1920, Page 5
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142WAR MEDALS Southland Times, Issue 18831, 26 May 1920, Page 5
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