§ MR. WINGFIELD-DIGBY (Dorsetshire, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he will give the actual or approximate number of those who have been returned wounded since the commencement of the war, who are already cured of their wounds and back again at the front.
*MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMSI can give figures up to the 2nd February, which are as follows:—Wounded: officers, 261; non-commissioned officers and men, 4,583. Returned to duty: officers, 67; non-commissioned officers and men, 705. These figures do not include casualties in Ladysmith and Kimberley since investment.