§ 20. Mr. MARRIOTTasked the Secretary of State for War whether after the Armistice a statement was issued by the War Office to the effect that members of the teaching profession would be immediately released from the Army, and that individual application either from teachers or their employers was therefore unnecessary; and whether, notwithstanding this statement, teachers are still retained with the Colours?
§ Mr. FORSTERI am not aware of such a statement having been issued, but I may say that a number of the members of the teaching profession who were certified by the Board of Education and registered by the War Office, before the 1st February, 1919, were demobilised as pivotal men. Teachers others than those so certified, must be eligible for demobilisation under current instruction in order to be released.