§ 41. Lieutenant-Colonel POWNALLasked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that Regular officers were granted their majorities on the 1st September, 1915, after fifteen years'service and that Volunteer officers used to be given an honorary majority after the same length of service, he will consider the advisability of granting the honorary rank of major, on retirement from the Service, to those officers who have completed fifteen years'commissioned service but who, owing in most cases to their service not having been consecutive, have not reached the rank of major?
Captain GUESTPromotion to the rank of major in the Regular Army after fifteen years'service has been discontinued since 15th November last, and the grant of higher honorary rank in the Volunteers by virtue of completion of a specific period of service (fifteen years) ceased on the inception of the Territorial Force in 1908.