HC Deb 12 January 1894 vol 20 cc1455-6
COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if the soldiers injured during the Featherstone Riots will receive any compensation?

* MR. CAMBBELL-BANNERMAN

Soldiers injured on duty are treated in hospital under the ordinary Rules of the Service. They are not entitled to compensation unless permanently incapacitated for military duty.

COLONEL LOCKWOOD

Has the right hon. Gentleman's attention been called to the paragraph in the Report, which lays it down that the soldier employed for the purposes of establishing civil order is only a citizen armed in a particular manner, and does not this fact place him in the same category with regard to compensation as the private citizen?

MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

I am afraid that that fact does not place the soldier in the same position as the private citizen.