HC Deb 06 March 1871 vol 204 c1385
LORD GARLIES

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will object to extending to married subalterns and all Regimental Staff officers the same indulgence already afforded to other married officers in respect to passages on board ship for a female servant, from which the former are at present excluded by Clause 136 of the Army Circular of 1870?

MR. CARDWELL

, in reply, said, the object of the Circular was to extend to those officers, who were entitled to have male servants kept at the public expense, the power of substituting female servants in certain cases. Subalterns were not allowed to have any servants at all.