HC Deb 19 March 1903 vol 119 cc1221-2
MR. TENNANT (Berwickshire)

To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that the American orderlies and male nurses on the hospital ship "Maine" have received the war medal for their services to our sick and wounded in South Africa and China, he will state why the five certificated American female nurses in charge have been refused the medal.

(Answered by Air. Secretary Brodrick.) Instructions were despatched to principal Ordnance officer, Woolwich, on 13th instant, to issue these medals.