§ 110. Major BARKERasked the Secretary of State for War whether time expired men upon re-enlisting received a bounty of £15, whilst men whose time expired while prisoners of war are denied this bonus; and whether he will sympathetically consider a change in the Regulations, so that these men who have suffered for their country may not be penalised from the fact that they were taken prisoners?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI understand my hon. and gallant Friend to refer to the bounty paid to men compulsorily held to serve under the Military Service Acts, after they had completed their term of enlistment. The bounty is not payable 1440 except to men so retained; and under the Act of 1916 prisoners of war were expressly exempted from such retention.