§ MR. HUMBERSTONsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether the Medals for the 1st Battalion of the Bengal Artillery, for their services with the Roorkee and Rohilcund Force, under General Jones, were sent out to India in October 1862; whether it is known at the India Office at the time the Medals were sent out that Charles Fennah, of the 1st Company of the above Battalion of Artillery, had died on his passage to England on the 30th of September 1859; and whether the Medal to which he was entitled was with the others sent out to India in 1862; and when the Medal to which Charles Fennah was entitled will be sent to his surviving relatives?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, in reply, that it was quite true that the medals for the 1st battalion of the Bengal Artillery were sent out in 1862, and among them the medal intended for Charles Fennah, of the 1st company, was also sent out by inadvertence; but orders had been forwarded to the Governor General to send back the medals of such members of the battalion as had died or had left India, so that they might be presented to the surviving relatives of persons for whom they were originally intended.