LOSS OF WAR MEDALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17475, 20 May 1920, Page 4

LOSS OF WAR MEDALS.

GROUNDS FOR DISQUALIFICATION,

A General Headquarters instruction announces that war medals and the New Zealand Government certificate of honourable service in connection with the Great War, 1914-19, will not be issued to men who belong to the following categories: — (a) Those iound guilty by court-martial of dwertion or an offence under sections II or 18 of the Army Act (fraud,' embezzlement, stealing, malingering, wilful self injury, producing or aggravating by means of misconduct disease or intimity or delaying cure, or disgraceful misconduct). (b) Soldiers who have been discharged with ignominy or expressly on account of misconduct or on conviction by civil power or on being sentenced to per.ai servitude, (c) Soldiers who have been convicted by civil power to sentences of six months or more- (d) Soldiers who have teen returned to New Zealand and discharged with ignominy or expressly on account of misconduct without having actually taken part in military operations against the enemy, (e) Soldier,? who deliberately evaded service with their units by refusing to submit to vaccination or inoculation, or who deliberately or by misconduct .rendered themselves unfit for active service and were returned to New Zealand and i discharged without having actually taken part in military operations against the,enemy. These disqualifications will not. however, prejudice claims on account of services subsequently and satisfactorily rendered.