PAWNED THEIR MEDALS.
EX-SOLDIERS IN DISTRESS. UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 8, 8 p.m. London, Nov. 7. According to the Daily Chronicle the acuteness and distress due to unemployment is evidenced by the fact that pawnbrokers state that a large percentage of war medals are in pawn or have been ©old, though the silver medal is only worth 1/- or 1/6. In at least two eases men tried to pawn Victoria Crosses. This is illegal, so the pawnbrokers refused them. In one case a soldier was in such, distress that a pawnbroker advanced ten pounds upon the man’s waistcoat.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1921, Page 5
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104PAWNED THEIR MEDALS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1921, Page 5
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