§ MR. HANBURYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether it is intended that in actual service in war the Army Reserve Corps transport, placed at the disposal of the Army Medical Department, will be strictly assigned to that department for exclusively medical and surgical purposes; and whether during the Boer War the field medical transport was employed for military (i.e. combatant) as well as medical purposes, and on this account did not receive the protection of the Red Cross?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANOn active service a section of the Army Service Corps would be detached solely for transport duties with the Army Medical Department, subject to removal therefrom only under the authority of the General Officer commanding. I have made inquiries as to the second part of the question, and, as far as can be ascertained, the Field Medical Transport was not employed for combatant purposes during the Boer War.