MEDALS FOR THE DEAD
AN ARMISTICE DAY MATTER. London, Nov. 8. The Daily Sketch says that the Home Office has withdrawn its request that widows, mothers and sisters should not on Armistice Day wear the medals won by their dead relatives. “Has the Home Office gone mad?” asks Sir William Lane-Mitchell, Conservative M.P. for Streatham, who has given notice of a question in Parliament demanding that mothers, widows and children shall be expressly allowed to wear the medals of the fallen on Armistice Day. "The Home Office says it never forbade the wearing of the medals, but merely refrained from expressly requesting the ■wearing, as in previous years, but,” says thie Evening News, "even if the law forbids the vicarious wearing of the medals, the Home Office has raised a storm because it did not allow for the deepest sentiments evoked by Armistic Day. Relatives are going to wear the medals anyhow.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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