HC Deb 24 June 1902 vol 109 cc1510-1
MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)

To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that George Walker McCracken enlisted in the Royal Engineers in January last at Belfast, and was then attested medically and otherwise, being told that he must wait a week or so for certain papers from the War Office; and that he was urged to join another regiment on the understanding that he could be transferred to the Royal Engineers. And, will he explain why, on joining the 8th Hussars, this man had been refused the transfer promised.

(Answer.) There is nothing on this man's attestation paper to hear oat the statement that he enlisted for the Royal Engineers. The question of his transfer is one for the general officers commanding concerned.—(War Office.)