HC Deb 13 December 1911 vol 32 c2487W
Sir WILLIAM BULL

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will consider the advisability of giving the Coronation medals to adjutants in the Royal Engineers, seeing that the medal has been given to quartermasters in the Infantry regiments, but inasmuch as there are no quartermasters in the Engineers the work done by them is thrown on the adjutant, and in connection with the representative detachments that were sent up for the Coronation from the Engineers a good deal of the work and arrangements had to be made by the adjutant?

Colonel SEELY

Fifteen Coronation medals have been issued to Royal Engineer officers holding honorary commissions, including eleven quartermasters. The corps of Royal Engineers was treated as a whole like other corps, and this is the proper proportion to which they are entitled.