§ MR. TOMLINSON (Preston)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War why an officer appointed adjutant to a Volunteer battalion of his own regiment is required to go to the expense of having silver lace and ornaments substituted for the gold lace and ornaments which he is required to wear when doing duty with the Regular battalion to which he belongs (the distinctive regimental badges being otherwise identical), or whether para- 52 graph 839 of the Volunteer Regulations 1892, Part IV., Section 1, headed Adjutants, which at present extends only to Royal Artillery, Royal Marine Artillery, Royal Engineers, or Medical Staff, could not also be extended to Infantry?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Stirling, &c.)The adjutant of a Volunteer corps belongs, for the time being, to that corps, and not to his regiment in the Regular Army. The Military Authorities consider it essential that he should be identified with his Volunteer corps by wearing its uniform, which often differs from that of the Regular battalion of the same regiment, not only in lace, but also in colour. The Regulations are careful to explain that in the cases quoted by the hon. Member the difference of uniform is so slight as to render change unnecessary.