SPECIAL GALLIPOLI MEDAL
SIR JOSEPH WARD'S PROPOSAL. [BT TELEOmRH—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] •WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The question of war medals was referred to by Sir Joseph Ward yesterday. He said that he and Mr. Massey had urged in London that some special recognition should be made of the Gallipoli campaign by the issue of a special medal or bar. The army authorities appeared to think this proposal impracticable, on the ground that it would be impossible to recognise one battle without similarly recognising many others. The War Office proposed that there should be two medals, a British medal and an international medal. Millions of these medals would be required, and he thought that Nef Zealand, with the consent of the Imperial authorities, should issue a special Gajlipoli medal to its own men.. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Massey": With the consent of the Sovereign.
Sir Joseph Ward Yes! with the conSent of the Sovereign. The Gallipoli campaign has a place of its own in the history of the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16583, 5 July 1917, Page 4
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