§ 107. Captain LOSEBYasked the Postmaster General if his attention has been called to the case of ex Corporal Harold Gath, who, upon joining His Majesty's Forces, was personally thanked by the then Postmaster-General for giving up a well paid post in the poet office at Bradford in order to do so; if he is aware that the post office at Bradford now refuses to take him back into its employ and that considerable indignation has been caused by this action in the matter; and if he will consider the advisability of issuing such instructions as will secure the re-engagement of this ex-soldier and make the recurrence of incidents of this kind impossible?
Mr. ILLlNGWORTHEx-Corporal Gath was employed in the Bradford Post Office in a purely temporary capacity, in place of a member of the regular staff absent with the Forces, from March, 1915, until he was himself called up under the Derby Scheme in August, 1916. During this period he did not show aptitude for Post Office work, and his service was not altogether satisfactory. His temporary employment gave him no claim to reinstatement on discharge from the Army, and I regret that further employment is not available for him.