§ 21. Mr. WATTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether it is the practice of his Department when they find officers are permanently unfit for further service to force them to resign their commissions and allow them to look after their own recovery without any care from the War Office; and was this system adopted with Lieutenant W. A. Heron, of the 17th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, who was lying seriously wounded in the 3409 Western General Hospital, Manchester, and was forced against his desire out of his regiment on account of his wounds, and who suffered thereafter seriously in health and purse by being go treated?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThis question is not free from difficulty. I am making inquiry into the circumstances of the particular case mentioned, and will write to my hon. Friend as soon as I am in a position to do so.