§ MR. HUMPHREYS-OWEN (Montgomeryshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, in view of the fact that an officer who has retired on a pension at the age of forty, after nineteen years service, has to pay the full contribution (as in the case of a civilian) in respect of his sons in the Royal Military Academy and the Royal Military College, whether he will take the case of these officers into consideration; and can he say whether service with embodied Militia counts for all purposes as Army Service.
LORD STANLEYNo sufficient reasons have been adduced for a reduc- 1116 tion of the period of twenty years service required. As regards the Militia, embodied service will be allowed to reckon towards the twenty years service required.