Hi, 10 Downing Street,

                                    As can be seen by that being posted below, I got your reply to my petition so I’m just sharing it with the world.

Hi,

    I'm sorry to inform you that your petition has been rejected.

    Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:

       * Issues for which an e-petition is not the appropriate
    channel

    Further information: This is a matter for direct communication
    with the Ministry of Defence.

    If you wish to edit and resubmit your petition, please follow
    the following link:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Yangtze-Incident/DCASbfAv3cztB8AlJBAErek

    You have four weeks in which to do this, after which your
    petition will appear in the list of rejected petitions.

    Your petition reads:

    We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'Find remedy
    and reparation to the wrongful exclusion of H.M.S. Concord,
    from the 1949 Yangtze Campaign Awards System.'

    Being held under the reference DKNS 1 within the Churchill
    College Archives Centre, Cambridge, are papers and  naval
    signals concerning the "Amethyst Incident" along with the
    writings of Rear Admiral Sir David Scott.

    The papers, naval signals and writings of Rear Admiral Sir
    David Scott, establish's the fact that on the 30th July 1949
    was ordered into the Yangtze Kiaing River, to train its
    armament on the Woosung Forts, on that river, in readiness to
    respond, in the event of Amethyst being fired upon while
    passing that location.

    -- the ePetitions team