WAR MEDALS
Sir, —The article in your issue of July 17 is timely. Service medals are the right of every ex-serviceman, and should have been issued, fully inscribed with regimental number, rank and name of recipient, as was done after the Great War. Men returning from overseas are so sick and tired of regimentation that their one desire is to get out of uniform and back to civilian life, and the idea of filling in forms, as required for medals from World War 11, is repugnant to them. The argument of the Defence Department that to issue medals from records would be too great a strain on its resources is ridiculous. Every application would have to be checked against those same records, which would entail as much work as direct issue. If all the drones at headquarters were given a job, instead of walking round with folders under their arms, the issue could quickly be completed. —Yours, etc., J.M.C. July 18, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27097, 21 July 1953, Page 7
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