HC Deb 08 March 1917 vol 91 c542
96. Mr. COOTE

asked the Under-Secretary for War if he is aware that Private W. H. Ingram, No. 13627, who joined the Army in September, 1914, as a volunteer, is the secretary of Strabane Union and secretary of Strabane District Council and No. 2 District Council of Donegal; that, on representation being made to the War Office, this man was transferred to the reserve battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, at Finner Camp, from which he was enabled to attend periodically to his duties as clerk, but that lately he has been ordered to rejoin his battalion at a time when these public bodies have food schemes on hand at the request of the Department of Agriculture in connection with their small holdings and labourers cottages, necessitating the spending of large sums of money in the distribution of seeds and manures which no other person can understand or attend to but their clerk; and, under these circumstances, will the War Office order the return of this man to his duties as clerk, his only other available brother being in the Army also?

Mr. MACPHERSON

Inquiries are being made, and my hon. Friends will be informed of the result as soon as possible.