HC Deb 13 April 1891 vol 352 c354
MAJOR RASCH (Essex, S.E.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether it is a fact, as stated in the Times of 6th April, that a boy had enlisted and is serving in the Grenadier Guards at the age of 14½, and whether this case is an example of the "special enlistment" sanctioned by the War Office?

MR. E. STANHOPE

There is no trace of any enlistment in the Grenadier Guards at the age of 14 1/2 years, except in the cases of boys avowedly enlisted as such.