§ SIR PATRICK O'BRIENasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether first appointments in the 60th Rifles are made by H.R.H. the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, as in other Infantry Regiments (excepting the Brigade of Guards and Rifle Brigade, in 971 which the Colonel commanding the Regiment personally selects the recipients of first commissions), in the ordinary course, or are made by the personal selection of His Royal Highness in his capacity of Colonel commanding the 60th Regiment?
§ COLONEL STANLEYThe practice is not different with regard to the 60th Rifles from that which exists in every other regiment. As I had occasion to point out the other day, the Field Marshal Commander-in-Chief exercises the double function of Commander-in-Chief and of colonel of the regiment. I do not know that I could explain how he could keep the two characters apart.