NATIVES DECORATED
Australian Award SYDNEY, April 8. About 3000 Papuans walked up to 50 miles to attend a ceremony near Milne Bay when five native men and one woman were decorated with the Australian award for loyal service. The woman was a nurse who saved the life of an Australian airman on the northeast coast of Papua. The presentations were made by an Australian general, and afterwards the festivities continued throughout the night. The Army presented the natives with three bullocks, hundreds pf tins of bully-beef and sacks of flour.
The Loyal Service Award is a large medal of white metal with the Australian coat of arms on one side and the words "For Loyalty” and the recipient’s name on the other. The medal, hung on steel chains, ic placed around the necks of those decorated.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 6
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