LT. Ton EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—I am addressing you with reference to your statement OD p. 250 of your issue of February 20th "Sir Charles Gough bad three bars to his Cross." Can you substantiate this P I do not think you can. In the London Gazette of September 2nd, 1859, Captain Charles John Stanley Gough [late General Sir Charlea John Stanley Gough, G.C.B.] was awarded the Victoria Cross for four separate acts of valour. There is no mention in the Gazette of any bar whatsoever, and you will find none was issued. Indeed, I think I am correct in stating that the only approach to a bar to his Cross—prior to that lately given to Lieutenant A. Martin Leake—is contained in the London Gazette of March 8th, 1901, which publishes the grant of the Cross to Lieutenant Francis Aylmer Maxwell, D.S.O., for an act of valour in South Africa on March 31st, 1900, and con- tains the words: "During the Chitral Campaign of 1895 be brought in the body of Colonel F. D. Battye, of the Guides, for which he was recommended but received no reward."—I am, Sir, Re., W. [We simply quoted a statement made in the Press on Friday week which we took to be semi-official. Apparently the state- ment was not well founded.—En. Spectator.]
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