Major Lawrence, having completed numerous interviews with witnesses, and after a phone call to and brief conversation with General Trenchard, has submitted the following recommendation:
It will now move along through the proper and usual plethora of channels and hopefully be approved sometime in the next four weeks or so. Given that the General has attached his name to the commendation it may go a bit quicker, but only time will tell. The British Army's penchant for moving mind-numbingly slow when it comes to shuffling papers is, after all, legendary.