THE GALLIPOLI MEDAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 40, 15 February 1918, Page 3

THE GALLIPOLI MEDAL.

• IS IT RIGHTLY NAMED? V"- .. LOTSTDO'N-, December. 28. ... A statement has been published here, whichi is accepted as semi-official, to the effect that a' medal is to be issued by the New Zealand and Australian Governments, with the sanction of the King, in recognition' of ■ service's in Gallipoli. The Commonwealth and • Dominion Governments, it is understood, will agree upon a design and riband, which the Kino: will then bfe asked 1 to approve. The issue of the "Gallipoli Star,"' as it will be called, is to be governde, it is •aid, by two conditions. 1. The recipient must have particinatpd in the Gallinoli campaign by actually landing on the peninsula. 2 He must have embarked in Australia or New Zealand on or before 31st December, 1914. This announcement has given great satisfaction to the Main Body and the earlier reinforcements. • There_ is, however ,a certain amount of disappointment amongst several thousands of men who bore a heavy part of, the fight on Gallipoli, and in some spent six mopths or more on the peninsula, but who are nevertheless disqualified by the fact that they did not leave New Zealand' before the end of 1914. I understand that quite a few men who sailed in the early days of 1915 took part .in the landing of Anzac, on 25th April, and bore their full share of the campaign there, taking part in the hardest fighting of all, in August, and •■emaining until the winter weather-in November transformed the whole aspect of the fight. Yet they would seemed not to have earned the decoration. On the other hand, men who happened to leave iNew Zealand a week or two earlier, and perhaps spent only a few days on Gallipoli, are-qualified. If this is really the intention, the decoration must be wrongly named. _ Instead of being caned the "Gallipoli Star," it should be called, like the Imperial decoration, the "1914 Star." General Godley, in reply to my ouery on the subiect, remarks that "it wil be perhaps as much, or more, in the nature of a 1914 Star for the Main Body as far those who served on Gallipoli." —Post correspondent.

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