§ SIR WILLIAM BULL (Hammersmith)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the description register into which each soldier's attestation is written, and in which his name, his age, his height, the colour of his hair, where he was born, his trade, where he was enlisted, and other particulars are preserved, can in future be ultimately kept at the Record Office rather than with the regiments, which are always moving about.
§ MR. HALDANEThese description registers are an obsolete form of register, and if not required for the purposes of the record office of the grouped regimental district should be returned to the War Office for transmission to the Public Record Office, where a large number of similar registers are preserved. Under no circumstances should they be retained with the regiments. I am obliged to the hon. Member for drawing my attention to the matter.