SIR HENRY FLETCHER (Sussex, Lewes)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether the medical officers and establishments who served on board the hospital ship Tenasserim in the late Burmese War, and who had sole charge of the invalids, sick, and wounded, which invalids were brought down the river to Rangoon from Mandalay, and placed on board the ship simply because she drew too much water to go up the river, are entitled to the medal and gratuity as if the ship had gone up the river, which is the only reason assigned for not treating them as medical officers in a similar position have always been treated?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The medical officers in question are not entitled to the medal or clasp, the issue of which is limited to those who were either in Upper Burmah or in actual conflict with the enemy. The case of the gratuity is different. It is not known whether the medical officers on board the Tenasserim received it; but it was granted to the crews of Her Majesty's ships of war in the Rangoon waters.