14. Mr. J. JONESasked the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that coast battery men during the war are entitled to the war medal, whilst men who were mobilised in 1914 and guarded the railways and afterwards did duty on the coast are not entitled, he will explain this discrimination?
§ Sir R. SANDERSThe hon. Member is, I think, under a misapprehension. The medal is not given to all coast battery men, but only to those who were actually engaged with hostile vessels. The performance of general military duty on the coast, whether in a battery or elsewhere, does not entitle a man to the medal.