§ 23. Mr. FORESTIER-WALKERasked the Secretary for War whether he is aware of the hardship of apprentices who joined the Army at eighteen years or nineteen years of age, but after 1st January, 1916; and whether he will consider if they could be placed on the Reserve and enabled to fulfil their apprenticeship?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI regret I have nothing to add to the answer given to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Torquay on the 11th March, to the effect that students and apprentices are being treated on the same footing as regards demobilisation as other soldiers; their demobilisation is dependent on their being eligible under existing regulations.