The Order of Merit, 1902-2002
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: December 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781860648489
Subjects: Honours & decorations; Social History; Great Britain - History; History; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Europe - Great Britain - General; Decorations of honor; Great Britain; Order of Merit (Great Britain)
First sentence: On 26 June 1902, the British public awoke to find that they had acquired a new Order - not of knighthood, but of merit for those who 'may have rendered exceptionally meritorious service in our Navy and our Army, or who may have rendered exceptionally meri