HC Deb 23 May 1895 vol 34 cc88-9
MR. L. P. HAYDEN (Roscommon, S.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been directed to the case of Robert Lyons, alleged to be a native of Castlerea, County Roscommon, who enlisted in Manchester in 1888, and was discharged on the 6th instant owing to insanity, and sent under escort by the Commandant of Netley Hospital to Castlerea Workhouse; and whether he will recommend that soldiers discharged under such circumstances be committed to a military asylum, and not returned to an Irish union to which they either did, not belong or had left many years before?

*MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

The proceedings in this case appear to have been quite in accordance with the section of the Army Act which relates to the discharge of lunatic soldiers. Castlerea was given in the man's attestation as his place of birth.

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