§ 70. Mr. JOWETTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the case of a boy named Emanuel Whorwood, who enlisted on the 1st February, 1916, at the age of sixteen, in the 3rd Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and who was taken afterwards to Whitley Bay Hospital suffering from shell shock as a result of a Zeppelin air raid on Whitley Bay in June or July last; whether he is aware that the boy in question was transferred, after he had received his injuries, to the Army Reserve, Class W, and sent to a military hospital at Keighley, Yorks, where he suffered from severe epileptic fits; if he is aware that Whorwood applied for a temporary pension from the Statutory Committee and was informed that, as he was not discharged, from the Army, he was not eligible for assistance; and whether he will take whatever action is necessary to put this boy in a position to claim the cost of maintenance that is due to him?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI have called for a report on this case, and will communicate again with my hon. Friend as soon as I am in a position to do so.
§ Mr. HOGGEWould it not be as well to let this boy out of the Army, so that he may make his application in the ordinary manner?