§ MR. COURTHOPETo ask the Secretary of State for War whether retired officers of the Regular Army who serve as brigade-majors in the Auxiliary Forces are ineligible for the honorary promotion which is granted to officers of the Auxiliary Forces who serve in the same capacity; if so, whether he will correct this difference in the regulations for the Territorial Force; and whether he will grant honorary promotion to retired officers of the Regular Army, who have already served, or are now serving, as brigade-majors of the Auxiliary Forces.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Officers of the Auxiliary Forces have hitherto been eligible for a step of honorary rank under certain conditions after certain specified periods of service, but the post of brigade-major, whether held by a retired Regular officer or not, did not entitle him to honorary rank as such. Honorary rank will not be granted to officers in the Territorial Force, but officers now holding such rank in the Yeomanry and Volunteers will retain it on transfer to the Territorial Force. The reply to the last part of the Question is in the negative.