§ MR. BRIGGSasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether field officers retired from the Auxiliary Forces with permission to retain their rank, are eligible fur the honour of the Companionship of the Bath about to be bestowed on a limited number of the field officers of those forces; and, whether that honour is to be confined to field officers in active service?
§ MR. CHILDERSSir, in reply to my hon. Friend, I have to state that the selection of officers of the Auxiliary Forces for honorary distinctions is made as a general rule from officers in active command of regiments; but those who have retired from the command and have been appointed honorary colonels of their regiments, are not considered absolutely ineligible for those distinctions.