THE V.C. MEN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 5 June 1919, Page 4

THE V.C. MEN.

(To the Editor.) . Sir,-—I <£oat know E.A.8., butf ffSl lifce to sbake hands with him, aflynsw. His remarks must appeal to all that know anything about these' decorations. Ask Foote or Hayton or1 any of tiie Hsoys how they got their1 decorations, and what will they tell! you? "Oh,. I don't know!" and are* thenr- merits ekj* just as worthy of consideration as apy V.C ? Why any^ award? is given foreign to me. Did; not air of our Bays that landed on the- . feeach at , Gallipoli merii a, D.C.M.? What did; one of your Ha^. :^era boys thatf carried a mate through " V five hundred yards of mud at Passchendaele get? An extra stripe! The boys - don^-KTok for these things, and don't ; thank you for asking them why thejr have got them, ami I will say, and I: think without contradiction, that all . the boys—V.C.'s, if.C.M.'s, . M.M.'s, ; and all—should have the same royal welcome, we owe them.—l; am, etc., 808.