SOLDIERS' DISCHARGES

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 9

SOLDIERS' DISCHARGES

"HON OURABLTC'' iAND ' HONOURABLE" ENDORSEMENTSThe reasons why soldiers now being discharged from the, . Expeditionary ' 1' orco do not obtain a character entry upon the\r discharge certificates have already been explained in the Press, but., says an official communication, a number of complaints regarding: the absence of this character entry are still bring made. Therefore, it will help the soldier if it is made clear to the public, csp°i;ially prospective . employers, that -tlhla discharge certificates on Forms 203 and 207 are honourable discharges in accordanco with King's Regulations, and that a man who has not been honourably discharged not'bo able to produce, a cert'ficat© with • the endorsements: "Is discharged on tho termination of his period of engagement," or '.'ls discharged in consequenca of being no longer physically fit for military service." AVhen a man is not honourably cT-s----ehanged, ono of the following endors? - mpnts will n«nea.r on .his eerHfieate of d'seharge: "Having been sentencM to •.i<> d : scharged with ignominy. 1 ' "Hhvinrr been convictp-l Wthe evil power' '■" TV,-. rtho most reunion indication of bad character). , "Having been sentenced to penal servitude, or "His gpwicw bdno: no longer required." Tho fact that discharges were oricinallv issued with a character entrv W caused the more reoentlv discharged nen to make representations on tho snbieot, but character cannht bp ' well jissWod' for entrv on tho rertificat" ■ under present conditions, tliT-iph the possession of a with thf> endorsements in +b» firrf pnrngrnph is evidence that , t' lo holder 1 ••ft' thb Army honourably: