WAR MEDALS AND PLAQUES.
MANY STILL UNCLAIMED. CTTRISTCHURCH, Monday. Sir 11. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Defence, remarked to-night tliat the number of war medals issued up to March 31 last was 140.136. made up as follows:—1914-15 Star, 25,985; British War Medal, 80,09fi; Victory Medal, 2905. Of the number 293 Stars and 2452 War and Victory Medals had been returned unclaimed.' In addition, about 2000 medals cannot be dispatched lvntil an address for each is available. The number of plaques dispatched up to March 31 was 15,200. Twelve hundred are being dispatched this month to the High Commissioner for distribution 1 to the next-of-kin in the United Kingdom. There are approximately 2200 plaques yet to be distributed. The issue of illuminated certificates has up to the present been confined to I men who served honourably with the Expeditionary Force, and they were intended originally as discharge certificates. They were therefore not issued to the next-of-kin of those who died on. service. It has now been decided that this certificate with certain necessary alterations ehall be issued to the next-of-kin of the men who died while on service or in the Dominion as the result of ■war service.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 86, 11 April 1922, Page 7
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