§ MR. LODER (Brighton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether Colonel Stracey's successor in command of the Scots Guards was on full pay in command of a battalion of the Scots Guards when the regimental command was about to become vacant; whether Colonel Stracey's successor had finished four years' term of battalion command; and whether he was placed temporarily on half-pay, and thus enabled to be repaid his over-regulation purchase money, before being appointed in regimental succession to the command of a regiment of Foot Guards; and, if so, whether he will reconsider Colonel Stracey's case?
§ *MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANColonel Stracey was placed on half-pay on July 1, 1891; his successor, Colonel Gascoigne, having made a voluntary application to retire on half-pay, was gazetted to half-pay on June 23, 1891. He had been for three and a-half years in command of a battalion. He was not placed on half-pay temporarily, but retired voluntarily, and thereby fulfilled the condition enabling him to receive the over-regulation value of his commission. This fact does not point to any necessity for reconsidering Colonel Stracey's case.