HC Deb 17 June 1915 vol 72 c790
63. Sir WILLIAM BULL

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he will consider issuing a medal at intervals of, say, six months as, under the present circumstances, many men have died who are entitled to a medal, and, incidentally, the issue of medals protects from unnecessary annoyance those young men who have been invalided out of the service?

Mr. TENNANT

As is well known, medals are granted at His Majesty's pleasure in commemoration of arduous campaigns. At the present stage of hostilities their issue appears premature.

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