§ Sir HERBERT NIELDasked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider favourably the claims of non-commissioned officers who re-enlisted at the outbreak of war, but who were kept in England to assist in training the men of the New Armies, to receive the 1914 Star, seeing that they would have accompanied their battalions overseas but for their compulsory detention for the purpose named?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThe 1914 Star was granted in recognition of services rendered under the command of Lord French in France and Belgium during the earlier phase of the War in 1914. It is not proposed to extend the conditions governing the award of the Star.