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In the United Kingdom applications should be made on the forms which are provided at Board of Trade Mercantile Marine Office, at the Offices of Associations and Unions of Marcantile Marine Officers and Mon, and at the Offices of Pilotage and Lighthouse Authorities. If, however, an applicant is unable to attend at any such Office, a written request may be sent to the Marine Department, Board of Trade, London, for an application form.
(.) The Mercantile Marine War Medal can only be awarded to those who have already qualified for the British War Medal in accordance with clause I. on the front page. It cannot be awarded to any person by reason of his having qualified for the British War Medal by service in the Navy, Army or Air Force.
(c) Qualifying service will in all cases be service at men, and not service in harbours, rivers, or other inland
waters.
(d) Applicants, who claim to have been precluded by disablement through enemy action from completing their qualifying service, must submit proof of their claim.
(e) Legatees or next-of-kin of deceased officers, men and women, will not be entitled to participate in the preliminary distribution of medal ribands, but must await the distribo- tion of the medals, to which the nenal quantity of riband will be attached.
Legatees or next-of-kin should apply to the Anthority in that part of the British Empire in which they now reside. Those who now reside in foreign countries should apply to the Authority in that part of the Empire in which they last resided.
() The Board of Trade will be the sole judge in the United Kingdom as to whether applicants are qualified, under the terms of the foregoing Announcement, for any, and if so for which, of the medale referred to.
The preliminary issue to any applicant of medal riband cannot by itself entitle the applicant to the subsequent award of the corresponding medal.
MARINE DEPARTMENT,
Board of Trade,
TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Dated 7th July 1920.
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Your Circular despatch 20th A11.3suggest
JUL 20 that notification published in Government Gazette should be so worded that mere local service on the coast of China or river service do not qualify for
war medal with exception of that which passed through zone of danger prior to capture of Tsingtau.
STUBBS.
June, 1920.
M:5361/1919
Notice No. 14.
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