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medals to captains, and subaltern officers, and non- 

 commissioned officers and privates ! ' but he should 

 like to know whether without these officers and men 

 they would have got their honours themselves ? " r 



The question remained in abeyance for some time, 

 when, thanks to the kind consideration of her Majesty, 

 the following document emanated from the Horse 

 Guards : — 



"GEXERAL ORDER. 



"Horse Guards, June, 1847. 

 " Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to command that 

 a medal should be struck to record the services of her fleets and 

 ai-mies during the wars commencing in 1793 and ending in 1814, 

 and that one should be conferred upon every officer, non-com- 

 missioned officer, and soldier of the army, who was present in any 

 battle or siege ; to commemorate which medals had been struck 

 by command of her Majesty's royal predecessor, and had been 

 distributed to the general or superior officers of the several armies 

 and corps of troops engaged in conformity with the regulations 

 of the service at that time in force ; general and other officers, 

 non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, who consider that they 

 have claims to receive this mark of their Sovereign's gracious 

 recollection of their services, and of her desire to record the same, 

 are each to apply to the Secretary of the Board of General Officers, 

 Whitehall, London, and to send in writing to the same officer 

 a statement of his claim, for what action, at what period of time, 

 and the names of the persons or the titles of the documents by 

 which the claim can be proved." 



A list of the occasions for which medals were 

 granted, numbering twenty-six, was appended, signed 

 "By command of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wel- 

 lington. — John Macdonald, Adjutant-General." 



