§ MR. ARTHUR LEE (Hampshire, Fareham)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether Second-Corporal C. H. Dillon, Royal Engineers, who was engaged on the Government Ordnance Survey, and who died, whilst so employed, on 23rd February, of malarial fever previously contracted on active service, was buried at Botley, Hants, on 26th February without military honours; and whether application was made by the friends of the deceased to the military authorities, who refused to provide military honours on the score of expense, and who declined even to send a gun-carriage from Netley, only four miles away, on the ground that the distance was too great.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The General Officer Commanding in 1633 Chief, Southern Commend, has been requested to forward a Report on this matter.