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deserving of reward, and the Council decided to recommend each of them for the West African Frontier Force Distinguished Conduct Medal :-
No. 89 Corporal Edee, Artillery, Northern Nigeria Regiment.
No. 422 Yatto Yola, 1st Battalion Northern Nigeria Regiment.
No. 1111 Daday, 1st Battalion Northern Nigeria Regiment.
No. 1331 Lance-Corporal Baba Duchi, 2nd Battalion Northern Nigeria Regiment. No. 524 Private Lawani Kegi, 2nd Battalion Northern Nigeria Regiment.
3. Four minor operations in Northern Nigeria in the year 1904.
The operations were described in a despatch from the High Commissioner, dated the 24th April, 1905, after consideration of which the Council decided to recommend that it should be published in the "Gazette," and that the Africa General Service Medal, with the clasp of the year, should be granted to those who took part in the operations.
Of the individual officers and men mentioned in the despatch, it was decided to recommend
Lieutenant L. Galloway, R.A., for the D.S.O., and Corporal Are Omoah, 2nd Battalion Northern Nigeria Regiment, for the West African Frontier Force Distinguished Conduct Medal.
4. The case of Captain C. C. Maud, Somersetshire Light Infantry, was re-submitted to the Council.
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Captain (then Lieutenant) Maud had been mentioned, with two other officers, for gallantry in a report by Colonel Morland, Commandant of the Northern Nigeria Regiment, on the Burmi operations in 1903, which was considered by the Council at their fourteenth meeting on the 12th December, 1904. Colonel Morland had now written to point out that Captain Maud was mentioned in his Report for gallantry two occasions," and that he was senior to Lieutenant S. H. Christy, 20th Hussars, who had been mentioned for gallantry in the same sentence of the Report, and who had been granted the D.S.O. It appeared that, dwing to obscurity in the wording of the sentence, the mention for gallantry" on two occasions" had been crroneously attributed by the Council to Lieutenant Christy, and, in view of this fact, it was decided now to recommend Captain Maud for the D.S.O.
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5. Attention was called by the War Office representatives to the fact that, by Army Order 4 of 1905, the Africa General Service Medal, with clasp Southern Nigeria, 1902-1903," was granted for a certain number only of the twelve operations which took place in Southern Nigeria between the 7th July, 1902, and June 1903, and which were described in Mr. Probyn's despatch of the 21st August, 1903, considered by the Council at their thirteenth meeting on the 29th July, 1904. It appeared that it had been the intention of the Council to recommend that the medal and clasp should be given for all the operations, and it was therefore decided now to recommend that the Army Order should be extended accordingly.
Report of Sixteenth Meeting, December 4, 1905.
Present:
The DUKE OF Marlborough, K.G.
Sir W. A. BAILLIE HAMILTON, K.C.M.G., C.B.
(Representing the Colonial Office.)
Lieutenant-General C. W. II. DOUGLAS, C.B. Colonel EWART, C.B.
(Representing the War Office.)
Mr. T. C. Macnaghten acted as Secretary to the Council, in the absence of Mr. F. Butler on sick leave.
THE following Colonial Office cases were submitted to the Council for their consideration :-
1. The field operations-eight in number-which took place in Southern Nigeria between October 1904 and June 1905.
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A despatch, dated the 22nd July, 1905, from the High Commissioner, describing the operations, was considered by the Council.
It was decided to recommend that the whole despatch should be published in the 'Gazette," and that the Africa General Service Medal, with the clasp of the year, should be granted to those who took part in the operations (No. III) in the Ibibio and Kwa country between the 15th November, 1904, and the 27th February, 1905.
The Council proceeded to consider the cases of the officers and men individually mentioned in the despatch, and decided to recommend :---
Major 11. C. Moorhouse, R.A., who commanded the operations in the Onitsha hinterland, for a D.S.O.
Sergeant-Major A. E. Klee, R.A., who was specially mentioned for gallantry and energy at the attack on Akindu during the patrol through the Irrua country, for the Imperial Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Native Sergeant-Major Seberu Ilorin, who was brought to notice for gallant leading of his section on the Ibibio-Kwa expedition, for the West African Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Native Sergeant-Major Abubakare, who was specially brought to notice for handling his men with great coolness, when Colour-Sergeant Scanlan was killed, during the expedition through the Ekpaffia country, for the West African Distinguished Conduct Medal.
2. The Kissi field operations, which took place between March and June 1905. A despatch, dated the 24th August, 1901, to which was attached a report on the operations by the officer in command of the expedition, Major C.. E. Palmer, West African Frontier Force, was considered by the Council.
It was decided to recommend that the despatch and report should be published in the "Gazette," but it was suggested that both the despatch and report should, if possible, be abridged before publication.
It was further decided to recommend Major Palmer for the D.S.O.
[NOTE-By an inadvertence the seventeenth meeting was numbered the eighteenth.]
Report of Eighteenth Meeting, July 27, 1906.
Present:
MR. W. S. CHURCHILL, M.P.
SIR W. BAILLIE Hamilton, K.C.M.G., C.B.
(Representing the Colonial Office.)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL C. W. II. Douglas, C.B. COLONEL EWART, C.B.
(Representing the War Office.)
GENERAL SIR E. STEDMAN, K.C.B., K.C.I.E.
(Representing the India Office.)
THE following Colonial Office cases were considered :-
1. The Kissi Operations, 1905.
A despatch from the Governor of Sierra Leone, dated the 24th August, 1905, reporting on these operations had already been published in the Gazette." The Council were now asked to reconsider the question of granting a medal for the operations. It was decided to recommend that the Africa General Service Medal, with the clasp of the year, should be granted to those who took part in the operations.