HC Deb 08 March 1916 vol 80 c1521
13. Mr. PERKINS

asked whether Territorials who have completed three years' service are returning home to civil employment and are exempt from further military service?

Mr. TENNANT

I do not see how it is possible that any Territorial soldier should become time-expired after an aggregate of three years' service. The normal period of engagement prior to the War was for four years, and since mobilisation it has been for four years or alternatively for the period of the War.