§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELLasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is intended to give any special recognition to the Royal Irish Regiment to commemorate their march from Korti to Gubat, which began on the 28th January 1885 and was completed 6th February, seeing that it was the only regiment which accomplished it?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN)The Royal Irish Regiment, in conjunction with the other regiments, did its duty well in the course of the campaign. It is not intended to give any mark of recognition to the regiment, as the services of all the troops engaged in the operations were specially acknowledged.
§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELLasked if the regiment had not performed a very gallant march across the desert on foot?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI do not know about on foot or otherwise; but the whole of that regiment was not engaged in the operations.
§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELLOno battalion.