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INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL ON MILITARY REWARDS.

Report of the Twenty-fifth Meeting, February 22, 1911.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

C.O.885

Reference :-

21 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Present:

Colonel the Right Honourable J. E. B. SEELY,

D.S.O., M.P. (in the Chair).

Mr. G. V. FIDDES, C.B., C.M.G.

(Representing the Colonial Office.)

Major-General J. S. EWART, C.B., A.D.C. Lieut.-General Sir A. S. WYNNE, K.C.B. (Representing the War Office.)

Major T. E. SCOTT, C.I.E., D.S.O.

(Representing the India Office.)

Mr. F. G. A. BUTLER, of the Colonial Office,

Secretary.

1. The Council considered, in the first instance. a memorandum by the Inspector-General of the West African Frontier Force, dated the 1st August, 1910, in which he suggested that the infrequency with which the Council recon- mended the publication of despatches and the grant of medals for operations in West Africa was having an adverse effect on the readiness of officers to volunteer for service in the force. The Council, after careful consideration of the memo- randum, saw no reason to depart from the principles which guide them in recommending the grant of military rewards.

2. Operations in Southern Nigeria between April 1909 and June 1, 1910.

The Council considered a despatch, dated the 13th June, 1910, from the Governor of Southern Nigeria enclosing a report on seven minor

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