Suez Canal Zone General Service Medal (No. 2)

EDM number 302 in 1998-99, proposed by David Heath on 10/02/1999.

That this House deeply regrets the refusal of successive governments to recognise service in the Suez Canal Zone from 8th October 1951 to 19th October 1954 for a general service medal; and calls on the Government to reconsider its decision and in particular to recognise the service of the following: J. Harrison, B. Drinkwater, P. Mayles, D. Podd, R. Hope, K. Mann, I. Livingstone, B. Cross, G. Rendle, A. Crompton, P. Cook, J. Gaugham, J. Ostle, P. Macauley, T. Sargeant, H. Bickerton, L. Oliver, J. Knight, E. Smith, B. Lea, D. Musty, O. Allan, N. Cain, J. Critchley, R. Clarke, J. McGale, G. Lewis, W. Skelly, D. Atkins, N. Crane, A. Buckley, E. Kennedy, R. Wood, J. Crossley, A. Robinson, W. Common, R. Morey, J. Smith, J. Hunt, D. Stewart, J. Marriott, A. Rowley, E. Sergant, F. Penman, R. Carey, E. Jones, H. Day, P. Cook, G. Jones, K. Cross, R. Roberts, G. Millards, B. Crimmins, A. Harbison. S. Summers, P. Sephton, M. Wincott, J. Finn, P. Petfield, J. Linney, E. Baxter, W. Rogers, E. McKenna, R. Richards, L. Johnston, T. Morris, D. Bailey, N. Dawkins, W. Marklew, J. Nugent, J. Mountain, A. Bullock, C. Keightley, A. Rosse, P. Mason, P. Cameron, D. Platts, R. Perks, L. Edwards, J. Sieben, W. Taylor, J. Constantine, R. Perks, L. Edwards, A. Nicholls, W. Taylor, L. Bates, W. Johnston, T. Morrison, J. Ostle, I. Melhuish, D. DeLahaye, J. Mansell, J. Evans, G. Hunt, D. Fletcher, R. Hope, D. Stewart, R. Sharpe, J. Greenhall, T. Hodgson, Len Trueman, J. Jennings.

This motion has been signed by a total of 71 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.