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AND WHEREAS on 1st April, 1937, Burma ceased to be part of India, and We are desirous
that Officers, Non Commissioned Officers and Men of Our Burma Army and other Military
Forces in Burma shall be considered eligible for the award of the Decoration;
NOW THEREFORE WE do by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors ordain and
appoint that the Fifth Paragraph of the Sixth Clause and the Eighth and Eleventh Clauses of
the said Warrant shall be cancelled and annulled and the following substituted therefore:-
(5) British, Indian or Burman officers and men of all ranks of Our Indian and Burma
Armies, the Indian States’ Forces of Indian States or any Forces serving in India or Burma
under the command, guidance or direction of any British, Indian or Burman Officer, or of
a Political Officer attached to such Forces on Our Behalf and
Eighthly:It is ordained that every recommendation for the award of the Decoration of the
Cross shall be made and reported through the usual channels to the Senior Naval, Military
or Air Force Officer Commanding the Force, who shall call for such description, conclusive
proof, as far as the circumstances of the case will allow, and attestation of the act as he
may think requisite, and, if he approve, he shall recommend the grant of the Decoration to
Our Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Our Principal Secretary of State for War or Our
Principal Secretary of State for Air, as the case may be, who shall submit to Us the names of
every one so recommended whom they shall consider worthy; in the case of there being no
British, Indian or Burman Officer, then the Political Officer attached to the Force shall, after
obtaining conclusive proof of the act of bravery as far as is possible, if he approve, submit
the recommendation to us through the proper channels.
Eleventhly:Every Indian Officer of Our Indian Army and Burman Officer of Our Burma
Army of rank junior to that of Second Lieutenant who shall have received the Cross shall,
from the date of the Act by which such Decoration has been gained, be entitled to a special
pension of five hundred and twenty five rupees a year, and each additional Bar conferred
on such Indian Officer or Burman Officer shall carry with it an additional pension of one
hundred and fifty rupees a year. In the case of a Warrant or Non-Commissioned Officer or
soldier of Our Indian or Burma Armies aforesaid We ordain and appoint a special pension
of one hundred and fifty rupees a year, with seventy-five rupees a year additional for each
additional Bar. On the death of a recipient of the Cross to whom this clause applies, the
pension shall be continued to his widow until her death or remarriage.
Given at Our Court of St. James’s, this 9th day of May, 1938, in the Second Year of Our
Reign, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight.
By His Majesty’s Command,
LESLIE HORE-BELISHA
XII AMENDING WARRANT: NEW OFFICER GRADES,
21 AUGUST 1939
GEORGE THE SIXTH by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions
beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India; to all to whom these Presents
shall come, Greeting!
WHEREAS His late Majesty King George V, by a Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual
dated the 5th February 1931, was pleased to make, ordain and establish rules and ordinances
for the governance of the Decoration of the Victoria Cross reserving to Himself, His Heirs
and Successors full power of annulling, altering, abrogating, augmenting, interpreting or
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