§ MR. PARTINGTON (Derbyshire, High Peak)To ask the Secretary of State for War how many of the Volunteer officers acting as adjutants are holding temporary appointments; to which branches of the Volunteer Service they are attached; and how many are appointed to county battalions with one or more detachments.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) At the present moment there are twenty-seven Volunteer officers holding temporary appointments as adjutants in the Volunteer force. Of these seventeen belong to the artillery, two to the engineers, and eight to the infantry. Of these infantry adjutants three belong to county battalions with one or more detachments.