GALLIPOLI HEROES AND THE MEDAL
Sir,—The question of a 1914 star 01 (i Gallipoli medal is engaging some attention nt, present, and there is one point which I wish to stress. A great many of- our best young men went in the Samoan advance party on August, 191'J, not knowing for certain where they were going or what dangers tlioy might have to face. As soon as they returned a large proportion of tliom joined up with the Fourth and imtli .Reinforcements, and went to Gallipoli. How do tnese stand? Are they less worthy to receive a medal than the men of the Main Body? These rnon were in tho Suvla Bay landing, and endured tho horrors and hardships of Gallipoli equally with those who were in the first landing. If there is to be a Gfallipoli medal at nil it should be for every man who saw sorvica there. Let there be a 1914 medal as well—there is no reason why there should not bub that should be entirely distinct from the Gallipoli decoration, and the men of the Mam Body could have both. TTere you at Gallipoli? is the question often asked of returned men. Not,-Were you at tho first landing? To have been there means to have taken a supreme risk as great at the end as at the beginning, as deadly in tho second landing as in the first, —I am, ete., ■ MR. STAR. February 20, 1918.'
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 141, 4 March 1918, Page 6
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