SERVICE CHEVRONS

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13886, 11 October 1918, Page 3

SERVICE CHEVRONS

REGULATIONS FOR ISSUE. Regulations for the award of chevrons to denote service overseas since 4ih August, 1914, arc published in General Orders. The following will lie eligible to participate in the award: (1) Off icers and other ranks of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (2) Members of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. (3) Members of the New Zealand Section of the Women's Auxiliary Corps. (4) Members of the New Zealand Voluntary Aid Detachment (including Nurses, General Service, and Motor Transport V.A.D.'s). As the Women's Auxiliary Corps and the Voluntary Aid Detachment are formed in England, only those memIrts thereof who left New Zealand for service since the commencement of the war. or were in England on the outbreak of war, and whose homes are in New Zealand, and who are serving overseas, are eligible for the award. The date for the award of the first chevron will be the date of tion from New Zealand for service • abroad, save in the case of those who joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force subsequent to their leaving New Zealand, in which case the date of the award will be the date of their so joining the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Officers and other ranks transferred to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from British units will be allowed»to reckon former service. An additional chevron will be awarded for each successive aggregate period of twelve months served overseas, which period need not be continuous. OfFicers and other ranks from the Dominion oti duty of a temporary nature who are not appointed for duty in the establishment of a unit of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force are not eligible ior the award of chevrons hy virtue of their temporary service out. side the Dominion. Periods of absence without Wve, imprisonment, detention. hospital treatment, or sick leave due to avoidable causes, or periods of captivity as a prisoner of war, will be excluded when calculating the twelve months required to qualify for an additional chevron. The first chevron, if earned on or before the 31st Deceml>er, 1914, will be red; if earned on or before Ist Jannary. 1915 will He blue. All additional chevrons will be blue.

Chevrons may be worn on plain clothe*. by retired officers, ex-officers?, "x-soldiers. and others, who n ould. had they remained in the Service, have been entitled to wear them on uniform clothing. Ar the chevrons are to be regarded as a distinction to be worn on uniforms denoting service overseas, asd not as a reward, so posthumous award will l>e made.