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War Medals Now Issuedi ,With Greater Dispatch! Canadian ex-servicemen -women vv ho think they wai'ed along time for the rnedais they ea: n-1 ed in the Second World W ar mightj be comforted by a look a; i record. Their medals nowi going out to then'. Veteran* ofj other campaigns * aited much Ion-j ger tor their decorations.* Lt.-Col. H. U! Jackson, M B K..* E.D.. director of «.nr service re*voids at Ottawa, said thi* weekI that ve etmns of the Ionian Raids1866 and 187o and the Kid River expedition in IKTo did receive their medals until Jul 1X16 some U8 years later.r of Second Worlde said may thinkthe government has been rewarding them for their st Four years. In- pointed lt;*uTnoughi! time!hu*nhtand distnhu’t Oia millIon iwasfurther complicated by the factthat each and every entitlement* had to be checked and double-* i checked, as had the address given* 1 servicemen and women a “argcHb K5 Jnumberve nott applied for their medals Ap ication cards can be had for tht asking at any poet office.T«
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Dauphin Herald and Press
Dauphin, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Oct 27, 1949
Page 10
Full Page
Clipped by
Bill M.
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