NAVAL CLASPS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160737, 25 August 1920, Page 11

NAVAL CLASPS

FOR WAR SERVICES, LONDON, May 8. In connection with the naval operations in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific during the late war the King has been pleased to approve of the award of naval clasps to the British war medal; Emden, November 9, 1914. To officers and men of H.M.A.S. Sydney present in the action. '''Pacific Islands.—To all naval officers and men who took part in the following operations in 1914: New Britain, September 11-21; New Ireland, September 6-October 8; Kaiser Wilhelm Land, September 24; Admiralty Islands, November 21; Nauru, November 6; German Samoa, Ang. 29. Three clasps will be issued for the naval operations in the Dardanelles—operations with which the names of the Anzac troops will be for ever associated. Dardanelles.—To officers and men serving in H.M. ships which took part in the operations ih the Dardanelles from midnight, February 1819, 1915, to midnight March 18-19, 1915, and which are mentioned in the despatches of Vice-Admirals Carden and De Roebeck, dated March 17, 1915, and March 26, 1915. Gallipoli landing.—To all naval ranks and ratings who left transports with a view to landing; to the officers and crews of those small ships, vessels, and boats which worked inshore or actually assisted in the disembarkation of troops; and to all ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy and mercantile marine on board the River Clyde, between midnight April 24-25, and midnight April 26-27, 1915. Off shore covering vessels, transports, etc., not to be included. Transports for this purpose are held to mean all floating craft that carried troops. Gallipoli.—To officers and men of all ships employed off the Gallipoli Peninsula within the area mentioned below from midnight March 18-19, 1915, to the date of the final evacuation, January 8, 1916. Area —To the eastward of a line drawn from Yukyeri Point (Lat. 39 deg. 50min 40sec., n.; long. 26 deg. 9min 45sec e., approx.) through a point in lat. 39, deg. 53min n 7 long. 26 deg. 6 mine., approx, '