§ MR. THOMAS DEWAR (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state the number of men in the Imperial and Colonial forces who have been promoted to commissioned or non-commissioned rank as the result of military operations in South Africa since the commencement of the war.
§ MR. BRODRICKTwo hundred and forty-six commissions have been granted. Further, forty R. A. warrant-officers have been promoted to be district officers, quarter-masters, or riding-masters on augmentation of establishments, and fifteen warrant and non-commissioned officers of cavalry and infantry to be quarter-masters or riding-masters.