§ SIR JOHN LENGTo ask the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that in a War Office circular letter to general officers commanding volunteers, dated l5th May last, it was stated that the names of Volunteer officers upon whom honorary army rank had been conferred for their services in South Africa, and who subsequently resigned, would be shown as officers with honorary rank in the alphabetical list of officers retired from the Army in the Quarterly Army List, he will explain why, in the Quarterly Army List for October, no names of Volunteer service company officers are shown in the list of retired officers, although many had resigned before it was published; and whether he will take steps to have this omission rectified in future quarterly lists.
(Answered by Mr. Secertary Brodrick.) The hon. Member has been misinformed. The officers concerned are shown in the Quarterly Army List on pages 2072-2074(b), to which the circular specially refers.