HC Deb 16 June 1873 vol 216 cc999-1000
MR. MALCOLM

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether Officers holding the post of Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry are to be made supernumerary in their regiment according to section 21, Clause 207, of the Royal Warrant of December 1871?

MR. CARDWELL

Sir, the Royal Commission on Military Education re- commended that the inspection of musketry in the various military districts should be intrusted to officers on the Adjutant General's Staff in the respective districts. This recommendation has been carried into effect, and, like other Staff officers of their rank, the officers discharging this duty are no longer supernumerary.