The Under-Secretary for War on Friday week made the grati-
fying announcement that the men of the old Army who went abroad in 1914 would be allowed to wear a distinctive chevron. The gallant survivors of Mons and Le Cateau, the Marne and Ypres, well deserve this small but much-coveted honour. Further, men who have served abroad since 1914 for at least six months will be entitled to wear a chevron, of a different colour from that of the original Expeditionary Force. A man who has served abroad for six months in one year, and for a similar period in a second or third year, will apparently be entitled to wear two or three chevrons, though the Under-Secretary's statement, like many Ministerial utterances, was not absolutely clear. It has long been felt in the Army that men who have worked and fought overseas should be distinguished from those who, for various reasons, have remained at home. Many men who have been invalided home without being wounded and thus securing the right to wear a gold stripe, have been wrongfully accused of evading their military duties. The chevron will tell its own tale.
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