§ *COLONEL LEGGE (St. George's, Hanover Square)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether, seeing that the official Army List, published in accordance "with the provisions of the Army Act, 1881, Section 163 (d), is under the Act evidence of the status and rank of the officers therein mentioned, he can explain why Lieutenant-colonels of the Reserve of Officers, with rank of colonel in the Army, are deprived of their Army rank on recall to service.
LORD STANLEYThe Army List under the Army Act, Section 163 (d), is evidence of the status and rank of the officers therein mentioned, and the Reserve officers are also shown therein, with the commissions they held when on the active list. On the recall of a Reserve officer to service he is dealt with under the King's regulations.