§ 22. Sir J. JARDINEasked the Undersecretary of State for War, with reference to Private W. H. Jamison, No. 150,684, Army Service Corps, British Expeditionary Force, whether, after he bad been accepted and served in the Mechanical Transport at 6s. a day, his pay bas been reduced to 2s. 4d. a day on the ground that he had made no application for enlistment before 10th November, 1915; whether, on 26th October, 1914, he applied for enlistment in the Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps, was medically examined on that day by Captain William Turnbull Barrie, M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial), and rejected on that officer certifying that, having failed to pass the test for vision, Private W. H. Jamison was in 370 eligible as a recruit for the Army; whether he is aware that, on the 21st October, 1915, he made another application and, at the request of the War Office, gave a reference about his capacity as a driver which was found satisfactory, whereupon he duly presented himself at the recruiting office at Hawick and was again rejected for rupture, but, on a special appeal to the War Office on 18th November, 1915, was accepted for service in the Mechanical Transport and received instructions to present himself on 27th November, 1915, at Galashiels for attestation; whether the reduction of pay from 6s. to 2s. 4d. a day has been made in this man's case after two years of service, of which eighteen months have been in France; and whether the War Office will have a careful inquiry made to prevent him being a loser through a misunderstanding of the dates and facts?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe enlistment of Army Service Corps motor drivers at 6s. per diem closed on 10th November, 1915, and all men who enlisted after that date are entitled to ordinary rates only. This man was not attested until 27th November, 1915, and was consequently reduced to ordinary rates. It has now, however, been ascertained that he applied for enlistment before 10th November, 1915, and instructions have accordingly been given for his restoration to the 6s. rate from the date of reduction.