§ 8. Sir R. POLE-CAREWasked what is the number of boys of seventeen years of age and under now serving in the Special Reserve; and how many men are serving in that branch of the Service who have been rejected as medically unfit for ser vice in the Regular Army?
§ Colonel SEELYThe latest figures available for ages are those of 1st October, 1912, when there were no men serving under seventeen years of age and there were 3,566 men serving between the ages of seventeen and eighteen. No information is available at the War Office concerning the second part of the question.
§ Sir R. POLE-CAREWWill the right hon. Gentleman ask for information upon that?
§ Colonel SEELYAs I explained to the House on previous occasions it would involve very great labour to obtain this information, and I have suggested to the House that as there is so much clerical work already they should not insist upon it.