§ SIR FRANCIS CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether in the interpretation of paragraph 457 of the regulations for the Territorial Force, the allowance granted to non-commissioned officers and men in respect of injuries received in and through the performance of military duty and incapacitating temporarily for the ordinary trade or calling of the injured man, the phrase in and through military duty is held to include injuries arising from accident during the going to and coming from the place where the military duty is 735 performed, on the ground that the going to or coming from the place is an essential condition of the performance of the military duty.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The general interpretation to be given to the regulations is that a Territorial soldier, to be entitled to the gratuity, must have joined, and be acting with, a military body. A man proceeding to or from the place where he joins his company, detachment, etc., is not entitled to it.