MEDALS OF THE DEAD.
AN ARMIBTKJE DAY MATTER. THEY MAY STILL BE WORN. LONDON. Kojfc'S. ' The Daily Sketch seys that the Home Office has withdrawn its request that widows, mothers and sisters shoald j»>t on Armistice Day wear the medals won by their dead relatives. . "Has the Home Office gone mad!" asks Sir William Lane-Mitchell, Conservative M.P. for Streatham, who has given notice Of a'question in' Parliament demanding that mothers, widows and dren shall be expressly allowed U> wear the medals of the fallen on Aripistice Day. " The Homo Office says it never forbade the wearing or the medals, but merely refrained from expressly requesting the wearing, as in previous years, but," says the Evening News, "even if the law forbids the vicarious wearing of the medals, the Home Office has raised a storm because it did not allow for the deepest sentiments evoked by ArmisHc Day, Relatives are going to wear-the medals anyhow."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 13
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