§ VISCOUNT WOLMER (Edinburgh, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is prepared to recommend to Her Majesty that officers of the Volunteer Forces who have served in the ranks should be allowed to count their full service as privates or noncommissioned officers towards the 20 years' service required to entitle them to receive the Volunteer decoration, seeing that that decoration, which has already been granted to officers, is now to be granted to non-commissioned officers also?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe conditions under which non-commissioned officers shall count their service 1898 towards the proposed decoration have not yet been fully determined. But the decoration to be given to them will not necessarily be identical either in nature or conditions with the officers' decoration; and it does not appear to be desirable to make any alteration in the conditions under which the latter is earned.