§ 27. Mr. TICKLERasked the Under-Secretary of State for War, with regard to an officer who has been attached to another corps and who has obtained promotion to the rank of captain and been awarded the Military Cross and a bar to the same, whether, on being wounded and returned to the establishment of his own regiment, he must revert to the rank of second-lieutenant while officers junior to him in his regiment have received promotion?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONIf an officer has been promoted, he does not revert to lower rank; but if he has been granted acting rank, which is given for the performance of the duties of a specific appointment, then he would relinquish his acting rank on vacating his appointment.
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTIs it the case that by giving distinguished services and by being wounded this officer, while attached to another corps, has lost all chance of promotion in his original regiment?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONNo, the hon. Member is quite wrong in that assumption. The point is that if a man is of acting rank he is bound to revert to his former rank.
Mr. SCOTTIs it the case that, while he is of acting rank, officers junior to him, who have never seen service, have been promoted over his head?