§ MR. ALEXANDER CROSS (Glasgow, Camlachie)To ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state whether any persons have been employed during the late war as veterinary officers or civil veterinary surgeons who were not members of the Roy al College of Veterinary Surgeons, in the Regular Army, Imperial Yeomanry, Remount Department, or in Transports.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The only cases in which veterinary surgeons who were not members of the Royal College were employed was to accompany horse transports from New Orleans, Montreal, and New South Wales. In these cases graduates of the American or Canadian Colleges were engaged locally, and four of these were subsequently employed in South Africa for a short time. The same remark applies to New South Wales. Three gentlemen who were not members of the Royal College were engaged by the Imperial Yeomanry Committee. None, 12 however, were employed in the Regular Army who were not members of the Royal College.