§ 56. General Sir IVOR PHILIPPSasked the Under-Secretary for War whether the Army Council will issue an Order authorising all English soldiers to wear the rose or a small St. George's flag on St. George's Day and all Welsh soldiers to wear the leek or daffodil on St. David's Day, whatever unit they may be serving in and irrespective of whether the commanding officer of the unit has or has not applied to the Army Council for such permission; and whether he is aware that a similar concession to that now asked for has been granted to all Irish soldiers by the Army Council and to all English sailors by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to my reply, on 679 the 16th instant, to a written question by ray hon and gallant Friend the Member for Maidstone, from which he will see that Instructions of the nature suggested in the question have already been issued.