FOR NAVAL FIGHTING MEN
CLASP TO 1914- STAR. (Fbou Oue Own Correspondent.) LONDON, December 18. It is officially announced by 'the Admiralty that the King has approved the grant of a clasp to officers and men who have been awarded the 1914 Star and who actually served under the fire of the enemy in France and Belgium between August 5, 1914, and midnight November 22-23,, 1914. The clasp will be bronze and will bear the inscription, " sth Aug.-22nd November. 1914." In undress uniform, when ribands are worn, the grant of the clasp will be denoted by the wearing of a small silver rose in the .centre of the riband. Two roses will be issued with each clasp.
The clasp_ will also be awarded to all officers of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Naval Reserve, and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve actually on duty within range of the eneiny's_ mobile artillery between the dates specified. Clasps earned by deceased officers" and men will be handed to their next-of-kin.
Service in the following units does not qualify for th© clasp: —Transport staffs. Royal Naval Hospital. Dunkirk; Royal Marino Brigade, Ostend; Royal Naval Air Service, Dunkirk; Royal Naval Division de-. tachments at Dunkirk ; Divisional Engineers and Divisional. Train.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 65
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