§ 87. Mr. HIRSTasked the Secretary of State for War, whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Sergeant Charles H. Hugh, No. 200870, depot 1/4th Somerset Light Infantry, 8th Reserve battalion, Bellary, India; whether he is aware that this man enlisted in the first week of the War and was drafted to India in October, 1914; that he was wounded in Mesopotamia in March; 1916; that he was returned to India, where he has suffered from enteric and malaria several times; that during this period of five years he has never been home; that Sergeant Hugh and about thirty other men, who were all that were left in India of the 1/4th Somerset Light Infantry, have been drafted to Bellary with a unit which is replacing a Regular garrison battalion; that Sergeant Hugh's mother is seriously ill with neuritis; and that his pre-war employment is waiting for him; and whether he will have inquiry made into this matter with a view to the early return and demobilisation of Sergeant Hugh and the other men of similar service?
§ Mr. FORSTERI am informed that Sergeant Hugh left for dispersal on 27th September, 1919.