§ SIR GUYER HUNTER (Hackney, Central)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, since relative rank of the Medical Officers of the Army has been abolished, what rank, if any, they now have in the Army?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)A medical officer holds the rank in the Army which his commission confers upon him; and under article 125 a of the Royal Warrant it is provided that, for purposes of precedence, allowances, and widow's pension, medical officers shall rank with combatant officers as there laid down. As a matter of fact, the abolition of the term "relative rank" has not altered the position of medical officers in any respect whatever.