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Show CHAPLAINS' BADGE OF HONOR Medal to Be Given by Protestant Churches Which United in War Work. A commemorative medal Is to be given by the Protestant churches which united in war work through the general w'ar-time commission of the churches to all their chaplains of the Amercian army and navy who served in the war. The chaplains' medal is the work of Mrs. Laura Gar-din Gar-din Fraser of New York, one of the best known of American medalists, and the wife of the designer of the Victory button. Mrs. Fraser has chosen, in the design de-sign for the chaplains' medal, to represent rep-resent an army chaplain in the act of supreme servlce ministering to a wounded man at the risk of his own life. In the center of the design the :::.i.:S:::::::::.;:iX:4:::s;:x.:!::-: . '. Al5'ift: - - - - : : .' ' -- The Chaplains' Medal. gas mask Is seen, ready for Immedl-I Immedl-I ate adjustment. Indeed, the suggestion sugges-tion is that the chaplain has, perhaps, momentarily removed it. the belter to succor the wounded man. The fine record of the mun who K"rved as chaplains in the navy, many of them constantly passing back and forth through the submarine da;,L'cr zone, ministering to the crews of tbf naval vessels and the soldiers on Hi.-trans-ports, is recalled by the representation repre-sentation of the battleship on ti e -e-verse of the medal. The striking of theo medals is the realization of a suggestion made soon after tie- armi:ce in the executive committee of the general war-titne commission of the churches. Tie-committee Tie-committee approved the proposal and made it one of the tasks committed to the general committe;- on army und navy chaplains when the war-! hue commission dissolved. The medals are intended to convey in tangible form a m--!.2" of grateful appreciation apprecia-tion from the churches to their chap-luin chap-luin Sol 5 |