HC Deb 20 November 1918 vol 110 cc3441-2W
Sir CHARLES HANSON

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the fact that it is proposed by the French Government, at the suggestion of General Mangin, to give each French soldier on demobilisation his own helmet with the words inscribed thereon, "Soldier in the Great War," and to allow the relatives of each soldier killed at the front to receive the dead soldier's helmet with the inscription, "He died for his country"; and whether he will consider the propriety of following that example by allowing each soldier forming part of the Imperial forces to retain his helmet or some other equivalent item of his equipment to be suitably inscribed?

Mr. MACPHERSON

I would refer my hon. Friend to the replies which I gave yesterday to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Enfield.