it George Macmunn, the veteran of many. campaigns, gave. the Authors' Club—of which institution he is entitled to be an honoured member by virtue of his active pen—an amusing account a few Weel ago' of controversies over the issue and award of war medals. He referred to the historical fact that Cromwell started the practice of issuing such medals by striking one after "the crowning merey of Dun-Actually the first war medal "to count" in the British Army was issued for the Battle of Waterloo. But it caused much heartburning among the then veterans of the Peninsular War' who agitated such purpose that the Government eventually gave way and struck a medal for that campaign. "But Sir George's revelation about the award of a. V. C. for the siege of Delhi to the Ist Battalion Bengal Europea is worth nothing. The, whole battalion had done so well that the m were asked to select one of their number for the honour—it was then only one year old. They chose tha canteen sergeant:
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