HC Deb 18 March 1919 vol 113 c1887
71. Colonel YATE

asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether War Office Memorandum, No. 1,114, of 5th March, 1919, which lays down that when an officer's services can be dispensed with he should be forthwith relegated to unemployment, applies to officers specially re-employed during the War; and, if so, considering that many of these officers have incurred liabilities for house rent, etc., due to their work in London away from their homes, will they be given the same consideration as has been accorded to civilian workers during the War and not be dismissed at a day's notice?

Captain GUEST

The Memorandum applies to all officers. If my hon. and gallant Friend will take into consideration the gratuities payable to re-employed officers on demobilisation, and the fact that most of them have drawn retired pay in addition to full pay during the War, I think he will see that they are not less liberally treated than civilian war workers.

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