In papers just received from Home appear accounts of Territorial Force Associations holding discussions upon what appears to be a new: medal—the Territorial Force War Medal. Unfortunately we have been unable to find any. thing more definite about this than what is contained in the somewhat confusing reports of these Association uieetings, and we are further hampered by a vague recollection that the Army Council had quashed the whole business. In these reports, however, we read that the King has approved of the medal in question to be granted to members of the Territorial Army and Territorial Nursing Service who volunteered for service overseas on or before September 30, 1914, yet in the next paragraph it seems as if those Territorials entitled to the 1914 or 1915 Star well not ko eligible for this new medal. If so, one can only wonder what the reason for the niedal is, for general idea in awarding a m the is that it betokens actual part pation in hostilities, not merely the act of volunteering or of being available. If that qualifying paragraph to which we have allude ed is incorrect, we are still at seal as to the purpose of the medal. for surely the Star is ample to cover the period up to the beginning of 1916. We are under no illusions as to the excellent work done in the war b; the Territorials, but the whole idea of this medal seems wrong.
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