§ COLONEL LEGGEI beg to ask the Secretary for State for War if he can explain why officers joining a regiment or corps on exchange or from half-pay are allowed to retain their Army seniority, whereas officers recalled from the Reserve are deprived of theirs.
LORD STANLEYA Reserve officer has no rank until he is recalled to duty. A regimental officer takes rank in his
† See preceding volume, page 1033.36 regiment or corps from the date of appointment to it. If his Army rank bears a different date to his regimental rank, he carries his Army rank date, for purposes of precedence and command, only when serving together with officers of other corps.