§ 35. Brigadier Petoasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether approval for the issue of a clasp, mine clearance, 1918–19, will now be given to officers and men who are eligible in view of the fact that the Naval General Service Medal, 1915, was not awarded for post-Armistice mine clearance service after 1918, and that the Naval General Service Medal is being awarded to those who carried out mine clearance service after the 1939–45 war.
Mr. DugdaleMine clearance between 1918 and 1919 was qualifying service for the British War Medal. It is not intended to recommend that a special clasp to the Naval General Service Medal (1915) should be instituted to recognise such service.
§ Brigadier PetoIs it not a fact that such a clasp was designed and was withheld on account of cost?