§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if his attention has been called to the withholding from certain corps, raised in South Africa during the war, of the King's South African medal, who fulfilled all the conditions regarding eighteen months service in the field beyond their own districts, but were during the last five months of the war attached to the colonial division formed by the Commander-in-Chief on November 1st, 1901; and if, having regard to the ill-feeling likely to be caused by the granting of an honour to one individual and withholding it from another, who did similar service, he will cause the alleged grievance to be inquired into, and, if sufficient cause is shown, redressed.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER,) Belfast, W.The question of the grant of the King's South African medal to the various corps raised in South Africa has been very fully and very carefully considered, and the Army Council is not prepared to reopen it.