HC Deb 08 December 1902 vol 116 cc217-8
SIR GEORGE FARDELL () Paddington, S.

To ask the Secretary of State for War if the medal granted under Army Order 32, of 1902, to Militia units which served in Gibraltar, Malta, and Egypt during the war in South Africa, will be extended to the Officers of the Royal Garrison Artillery Militia † See (4) Debates, exiv., 385. who volunteered and were attached to Royal Garrison Artillery in Malta, having regard to the fact that officers who were employed with their own units, more especially the adjutants and the permanent staff who are Regulars, received the medal.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The grant of the medal was confined by the Army Order to Militia units which volunteered and went out, and I fear it cannot be given to individual Militiamen.