§ SIR FRANCIS POWELL (Wigan)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if Volunteer surgeons on enlistment in the new Territorial Forces will cease to be attached to their present regiments; 869 will they be gazetted to a Royal Territorial Medical Corps arid be required to wear the uniform of such corps; will the compound title or rank be abolished; will the senior medical officer, if efficient, be appointed brigade surgeon; and, if so, while holding the appointment will he be seconded from his regiment.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. HALDANE,) HaddingtonMedical officers of the Volunteers will have the option of transferring to the Royal Territorial Medical Corps or of remaining regimental officers. Those who transfer will be permitted to retain the uniform of their former unit until worn out. The compound title will be abolished in the case of those who join the Territorial Medical Corps. The appointment of brigade surgeon in the Territorial Force will lapse, as the Territorial Force will be organised on the same basis as the Regular Army, in which such appointment does not exist.