GETS NO MEDALS.
TO THB EDITOR. •Sir,—l am a married man with a family and a wife who is practically an orphan, her mother being thousands of miles off and incapable of looking after berself. Her father is dead. Should I leave for the front she would be absolutely friendless. So far T have resisted. A working man receiving the handsome sum of 6s Gd for a day’s work, with the bare necessaries of life in some cases increased by 100 per cent, is fighting perhaps as noble .a battle as his brother ill the trenches, but receives no medals, honours or arlnlets.—l am, etc., BRITISHER. (The' correspondent might'be better off fighting—a soldier’s pay is better than what he says he is now getting. —Ed. “ L.T.”)
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17100, 24 February 1916, Page 9
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126GETS NO MEDALS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17100, 24 February 1916, Page 9
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