HC Deb 29 June 1908 vol 191 cc329-30
MR. BELLAIRS (Lynn Regis)

To ask the Secretary of State for War how many orders in each grade were bestowed on Army officers in 1907 in the Bath, St. Michael and St. George, the Star of India, and the Royal Victorian Order.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The orders bestowed in 1907 on Army officers on the active and retired lists, including Indian Army officers, were as follows—

G.C.B., Military 2
K.C.B., Military 16
C.B., Military 71
C.B., Civil 1
G.C.M.G. 1
K.C.M.G. 2
C.M.G. 2
C.S.I 1
K.C.V.O. 4
C.V.O. 7
M.V.O., 4th Class 14
M.V.O., 5th Class 3

Of the C.B.'s, thirty-four were specially granted on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the military operations in India in 1857.