§ * MR. CLAVELL SALTER (Hants, Basingstoke)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the case of D. Bremner, late corporal in charge of the Medical Inspection Room, 3rd Infantry Brigade, Aldershot, who was discharged from the Army on February 6th, 1906, after twenty-four and a half years service, without receiving the deferred pay to which he became entitled on his discharge; whether he is aware that Bremner's deferred pay was withheld from him upon the alleged ground that he was only a private and had improperly drawn corporal's pay from November 1st, 1902 until January 31st, 1906; and whether, seeing that Bremner was appointed corporal by the colonel commanding the 42nd Regimental District in July, 1901, and thereafter until the date of his discharge continuously performed corporal's duties and was allowed to wear corporal's uniform, and in view of the fact that his pay as corporal was always passed by the Pay Office, he will state what justification exists for withholding the sum due.
§ MR. HALDANEThis case was decided locally in the Aldershot Command, and I am having inquiries made about it.