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Source: 3 types pages in the book. The document formalises some of the contact of the Report of the Committee
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The following are the rules which have been sanctioned by the Secretary of State for adoption in the future:—

(1.) Civilian Officials who are employed in territory within the theatre of War, whose action materially assists in the success of operations, shall be considered as eligible for the grant of a Medal without clasps.

(2.) Civilian Officials appointed to assist the Commander-in-Chief, or other subordinate Commanders, at the front, in matters connected with the conduct of the War, or in the administration of territory shall be also considered in like manner eligible.

(3.) Duly accredited War Correspondents accompanying Forces in the field shall receive Medals, without clasps, subject to the following conditions:—

(i.) Correspondents must have been granted and have remained in possession of permits to act as such from the Chief Censor at Army Headquarters, or from other duly appointed Censors.

(ii.) They must have been authorised to act as permanent, as distinguished from occasional, correspondents for duly accredited newspapers.

(iii.) Their communications to their several newspapers must have been ordinarily forwarded by telegraph, and not solely by letter.

(4.) Conductors of Convoys shall receive Medals without clasps.

(5.) Duty on transport vessels does not in itself qualify for the grant of a War Medal. Service on land performed by any of the personnel of a transport vessel is not to be recognised, unless the individual concerned was ordered on duty by competent Military authority.

(6.) Masters and Officers of transports, and Civil Surgeons on transports come under the same non-qualification ruling as to medals.

(7.) The same ruling applies to nurses employed solely on transports, not used as hospital ships.

(8.) No Nurses will under any circumstances be eligible for clasps.

(9.) In considering the question of the award of medals to Nurses, the terms laid down in Army Order 195 of 1901 should be strictly adhered to. In cases, however, where the services of ladies have been utilised by competent military medical authority for actual nursing duties, and such services could not have been rendered by persons belonging or attached to the Army, the ladies performing such services may be considered for the grant of a medal.

(10.) Servants to nursing sisters, and ward maids, are entitled to the award of bronze, but not of silver medals, their ordinary classification being that of "menials," but the staff of ambulance trains such as cooks and attendants, if serving on written agreements, are entitled to silver medals as part of the medical staff.

(11.) With regard to hospital ships whioh have been used as such at the base of operations, the duly appointed medical staff shall be considered as eligible for the grant of medals, and the male members also to any local clasp, if such be issued.

(12.) Military Attaches of Minor Foreign Powers.—The grant of the war medal may be allowed to these officers as an act of international courtesy.

(13.) Scripture Readers and Army Temperance Workers.—These individuals may, if sent out under the authority of the War Office, be allowed to receive medals, but they receive no clasps. The old precedent allowing clasps in these cases shall no longer hold good.

(14.) Soldiers' Homes and Workers.—The local organisers, and those in local independent charge of soldiers' homes, may be considered eligible for medals without clasps, provided they are recommended, and the Homes have been duly recognised by the Military authorities.

(15.) It is laid down as a general ruling that "if an Officer or civilian proceeds to the seat of operations without leave from the War Office, he is not entitled to a medal unless employed by order of the Officer in chief command of the force concerned, or under orders of some. Officer specially authorised to make such appointment."

(16.) Mercantile Firms, Contractors, and Tradesmen who provide supplies for an army in the field in the ordinary course, of business have no claim to be considered for the grant or medals.

(17.) Civilians employed in the field under the orders of the military authorities on intelligence duties, or railway, telegraph, and other services, are eligible for the grant of the silver medal with clasps, if recommended by the General Officer in Chief Command.

(18.) Civilian servants to officers shall receive bronze medals. If, however, they are Reservists, they will be entitled to silver medals.

(19.) As regards the award of silver and bronze medals to Native Followers :—

(a.) Medals in silver may be awarded to—
All enrolled and attested followers (except ward sweepers); Regimental Bhisties and Pakhalis.
(b.) Medals in bronze may be awarded to-
Ward sweepers;
Authorised unattested followers (public and private), inoluding, private followers authorised by the Field Service Equipment Tables.

Clasps may be granted to both classes when the clasp is awarded on a General Service Medal as distinctive of the operations as a whole, and not of any particular action. As, for instance, in the case of the African General Service Medal and the Indian Frontier Medal.

The classes of followers who are both "enrolled and attested," and who under para. 19 (a) will receive medals in silver, are detailed below:—

Supply and Transport Corps.
Transport Veterinary Assistants.
Jemadars of Government mules, ponies, camels, and army transport bullocks.
Duffadars of organised mule oorps and of mules, ponies, and Government camels prior to organisation.
Naicks of mule cadres, pony cart train cadres, siege train and army transport bullocks, and silladar camel cadres.
Lance naicks, drivers, and sarwans of mules and ponies, siege train and army transport bullocks, Government camels, and silladar camel oorps.
Syces of mule cadres and pony cart train cadres.
Reserve transport mule drivers, shoeing smiths and saddlers.
Carpenters, blacksmiths, hammermen and bellows boys.
Palan-makers in each silladar camel cadre.
Clerks of mule cadres, pony cart train cadres, and silladar camel cadres.
Gun porters in Assam (mates and porters).
Ambulance bearer establishments (sirdars, mates, and bearers). Elephant establishments (jemadars, mahouts and coolies).

Ordnance Department.
Sirdars, tindals, and lascars of arsenals and depots.

Regimental.
Attendants on Army Transport mules attached to native cavalry regiments for grass duty.
Shoeing smiths of native mountain batteries.
Muleteers of mountain batteries.
Fort Armament Lascars.
Store Lascars of Artillery.

Medical Department.
Hospital attendants of the Army Hospital Corps, viz.:—
Ward servants.
Cooks.
Water-carriers.
Writers and compounders of medical store departments.