HC Deb 04 April 1871 vol 205 c1147
COLONEL TAYLOR

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the officers of regiments disbanded last year, and the officers promoted to unattached majorities and companies will, when brought into service, be gazetted into regiments according to the date of their last Commission, or be placed at the bottom of the list of their respective rank?

MR. CARDWELL

said, in reply, that it was an established rule that when an officer was gazetted to a regiment he took his place at the bottom of the list of those of his own rank, and that rule would be followed in the case of officers of regiments disbanded last year, and of officers promoted to unattached majorities and companies when they were again brought into the service.