§ COLONEL MAKINSasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether the names of Colonel H. S. Jones, Royal Marines, and Colonel Tuson, Royal Marine Artillery, will be added to the list of Regimental Colonels who have been recommended to receive Companionships of the Bath, those two Officers having been specially mentioned for their zeal and ability by General Sir Garnet Wolseley?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANSir, I hope I shall not be deemed discourteous if I venture to appeal to the hon. and gallant Member whether such 857 a Question as this should be asked in this House—a Question, namely, as to the intention of the Government to recommend to Her Majesty for a certain honour two individual officers out of the whole number who served in Egypt. I feel compelled to add that I am sure the two gallant officers alluded to by the hon. and gallant Member would be the first to disclaim, on their own part and on that of the distinguished corps to which they belong, any desire to have their names brought in this way before the House.
§ COLONEL MAKINSI assure the House I had no intention of doing anything that would seem invidious. I simply saw that a number of Army officers were recommended for promotion; and I wondered why the Marine officers, while they had been honourably mentioned by Sir Garnet Wolseley, were not mentioned as likely to be rewarded in the same way.