§ 3. Mr. KINGasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he, has inquired into the case of Thomas E. Sugden, of Mayfield, Winscombe, Somerset, who has for fourteen months been serving in a Red Cross hospital, and whose services are still required by the hospital authorities; why this man was summoned as an absentee at Axbridge on the 5th June; what was the result of that summons; where this man now is; and whether this 8 man, who can never be made an efficient soldier, is to be forcibly taken from the Red Cross work in which he was for fourteen months a skilled and successful worker?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Tennant)The details of this man's case are rather voluminous, and I cannot think they are of any general interest, I will, therefore, take the liberty of sending a full statement to my hon. Friend. It will be sufficient if I state that Thomas Sugden has been relegated to the Army Reserve (Class B) and has, I understand, been given employment in a Quakers' School at Winscombe as a manual training instructor, which profession he was exercising before the War.