Suez Canal Zone General Service Medal (No. 3)

EDM number 303 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: K. Cross, J. McQueen, J. Mutch, W. Swarbrick, G. Williams, J. Bushell, A. Keay, H. Whitehead, R. Barnes, D. Bentley, W. Bentham, R. Stewart, K. Smallwood, A. McDonald, D. Allen, L. Drew, T. Jackson, W. Mathieson, D. Flemming, T. Morrison, J. Friberg, J. Doughty, J. McDonald, P. Round, R. Thompson, K. Fell, A. Darlington, B. Quinn, J. Wiseman, J. Morgan, J. Cress, J. McKinney, Mrs R. Kinder, B. Hill, G. Kay, G. Roberts, J. Colbeck, R. Brown, R. Davies, C. Cottam, K. Gannon, T. Roberts, C. Withers, J. Wilkes, G. Norman, G. Davies, C. Martin, E. Lockwood, N. Bamford, R. Davies, A. Stevenson, J. Doyle, H. Whitehead, R. Steward, C. Booth, H. Jones, H. Pickles, A. Harbison, Mrs V. Murphy, R. Ward, A. Creevy, E. Taylor, R. Hunt, G. Wilson, R. Thorne, P. McNaughton, J. Friberg, J. Waite, R. Hewlett, D. Gilchrist, D. Baker, A. Dunbar, P. Waters, R. Owens, S. Cogal, S. Allen, K. Roddis, J. Chandler, D. Verlander, P. Tee, G. Teasdale, B. Rowley, W. Goodsir, L. Starkie, S. Whiffin, T. Hardy, R. Hunt, G. Woodward, G. Mayling, S. Skelly, W. Laidcaw, M. Petfield, G. Gardiner, D. Kerr, W. Worth, H. Rowe, G. Gaskell, F. Richards.

This motion has been signed by a total of 70 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.