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new Naval and Military decoration to be styled and designated the ‘Victoria Cross’, which
decoration We expressed Our desire should be highly prized and eagerly sought after by
the Officers and Men of Our Naval and Military services, and did also make, ordain, and
establish the rules and ordinances therein set forth for the Government of the same to be
thenceforth inviolably observed and kept;
And Whereas, by another Warrant under Our Royal Sign Manual, countersigned by one of
Our Principal Secretaries of State and bearing date at Our Court at Windsor the Twenty-ninth
day of October 1857 in the Twenty first year of Our Reign, We thought fit to signify Our
Royal Will and Pleasure that the said decoration shall be conferred on the Officers and Men
of the Naval and Military services of the East India Company who may be qualified to receive
the same in accordance with the rules and ordinances made, ordained, and established by
Us for the government thereof by Our first recited Warrant aforesaid,
And Whereas it has been represented to Us that the Members of the Indian Ecclesiastical
Establishments, although not receiving Military Commissions, are liable to be attached to an
Army in the field and are then required to perform the same duties as the Commissioned
Chaplains of Our Army, who are eligible for this decoration,
Now know ye that We of Our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion have
thought fit hereby to signify Our Royal Will and Pleasure that the said decoration shall be
conferred on such persons as aforesaid who may be qualified to receive the same, in accordance
with the rules and ordinances made, ordained, and established by Us for the Government thereof
by Our said first recited Warrant and We do by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
ordain and appoint that it shall be competent for such persons as aforesaid to obtain the said
decoration in the manner set forth in the rules and ordinances referred to, or in accordance with
such further rules and ordinances as may hereafter be made and promulgated by Us, Our Heirs
and Successors, for the Government of the said decoration provided that it be established in any
case that the person was serving for the time being under the orders of a General, or other Officer,
in Command of Troops in the Field.
Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this Sixth day of August 1881, in
the Forty fifth year of Our Reign.
By Her Majesty’s Command.
Hugh C. E. Childers.
VIII AMENDING WARRANT: NATIVE TROOPS OF THE
INDIAN ESTABLISHMENT, 21 OCTOBER 1911
GEORGE, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of
the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, to all
to whom these presents shall come, Greeting!
WHEREAS Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, by a Warrant under her Royal Sign Manual,
countersigned by one of Her Principal Secretaries of State, and bearing date at Her Court
at Buckingham Palace, the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did institute and create a new naval and military
decoration, to be styled and designated the ‘Victoria Cross’, which decoration She expressed
Her desire should be highly prized and eagerly sought after by the officers and men of Her
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