§ 18. Mr. SNOWDENasked the Undersecretary of State for War if he will have immediate inquiry made into the case of Private S. Clough, No. 24,916, 3rd Manchester Regiment, now stationed at Cleethorpes, who was discharged from the Army in January, 1915, as no longer physically fit for war service, but who later responded to a call for Volunteers for Home service, and was put in the Manchester Regiment and sent to France without a medical examination, where he broke down and was returned to England, having since passed a good part of his time in hospital, and who is still crippled with rheumatism and suffering from other ailments; and will he inquire further whether he has been sent to detention for 112 days for going to see his sick wife?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONInquiries are being made, and I will inform my hon. Friend of the result as soon as possible.