§ 3. Mr. FALLEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware that the body of Gunnery-Instructor W. H. Boland, late of His Majesty's ship "Viknor," was found on the coast of Ireland on 11th February and buried, and that on 15th February the Admiralty, in reply to numerous letters from Mrs. Boland offering to pay all the expenses of bringing back the body, if found, and after sending Mrs. Boland a form, wrote that if the body were found she should immediately be informed; and if he will see that such negligence on the part of the Admiralty shall be made impossible in the future?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAMrs. Boland was informed of the death of her husband on the 28th January, and on the 10th instant a letter was received from her requesting that the body, if recovered, might be sent home for burial. A reply was sent stating that in the event of recovery and definite identification she would be communicated with. The first suggestion that the body might have been recovered reached the Admiralty in a letter from Mrs. Boland on the 16th instant, which referred to a Press notice of the recovery of two bodies at Colonsay. Inquiries were 248 set on foot at the Admiralty, and the Department was on the point of writing to her to say that there was no confirmation in the office, when a communication was received on the 20th instant from the Procurator Fiscal stating that a police report had reached him on the 19th instant from which it appeared that a body believed to be that of Boland was found on the Island of Colonsay, Argyllshire, on 4th February, and interred in the Kilcoran Cemetery. Colonsay.