§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can state the total number of Courts of Inquiry respecting the Volunteer force in the year 1903–4 in which evidence was ordered to be taken on oath, and the battalions to which any such cases referred, who convened the Courts, and who directed evidence to be taken on oath.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) There was only one such Court in which evidence was taken on oath. The corps concerned was the 1st London Royal Engineers (Volunteers). The holding of this Court was approved by the Secretary of State for War, but actually convened under the orders of the General Officer Commanding the Home District by the Commanding Royal Engineer. This latter officer gave orders for the evidence to be taken on oath.