19 JANUARY 1907, Page 3

A very interesting announcement was made by the War Office

in the London Gazette of Tuesday. The King, it is stated, has been graciously pleased to approve of the decora- tion of the Victoria Cross being delivered to the representa- tives of four officers and two private soldiers who fell in the performance of acts of valour, for which they would have been recommended to the late Queen for the Victoria Cross bad they survived. Two of the feats thus posthumously honoured date back to the time of the Indian Mutiny; but the beat known is that of. Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill, who fell at Isandlhwana in a heroic but unavailing effort to save the Queen's Colour of their regiment.