§ Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALDasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he was aware that Private A. W. Brooker, of the E Company of the Royal Marines, after serving over seventeen years, was discharged from the Service on 30th April without any reason being given; whether the reason was that he declined to be vaccinated on the ground that when he first joined the Service he was vaccinated and suffered severely, and that the doctor who performed the operation marked his papers that he would not require to undergo vaccination 822 again; whether the authorities lost this paper or declined to produce it; whether all the man's papers were marked very good; and whether, as the result of his discharge, he not only lost his pension but could get no work on account of the way in which his discharge was notified to him?
§ Mr. McKENNAI shall be glad if the hon. Member would defer his question for a week, as I have not completed a full inquiry into all the circumstances of the case to which he has been good enough to draw my attention.