§ SIR CHARLES DUKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can state if a Court of inquiry in which evidence was ordered to be taken on oath was held last year in the cadet battalion attached to the 1st Volunteer Battalion Royal Fusiliers; and, if so, who it was who ordered evidence to be taken on oath.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) A Court of inquiry, at which evidence was taken on oath, was held in this cadet battalion in August 1903. The instructions for the procedure of this Court were issued by the General Officer Commanding the Home District. I regret that in the investigations made in reply to my hon. friend's Question on the 3rd instant this case was overlooked.