§ SIR FRANCIS LAYLAND-BARRATT (Devonshire, Torquay)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether officers of the Territorial Forces are eligible for the grant of the Territorial Force efficiency medal; if so, whether a Territorial officer is entitled to reckon half the time he has served in the ranks as qualifying service for the award of such efficiency medal; and whether, if an officer of the Territorial Forces has received the Territorial efficiency medal, he is thereby debarred from receiving in the future the long-service medal.
1388 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) A Territorial officer if awarded a decoration, not a medal, for long and meritorious service; and service in the ranks reckons towards the qualifying service at the rate of half the time so served. The conditions for the grant of this decoration were published in Army Order 268 of this month.