§ 19. Lieut.-Colonel JAMESasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Captain P. H. Ellis, late of the 10th Middlesex Regiment, was invalided out of the service on account of illness caused by wounds, on 13th June, 1919, with the rank of captain; whether he is aware that this officer has applied for his gratuity under the terms of Army Order 117, of 1919, (3), to be repaid to him, but that hitherto the Army authorities have refused to pay him gratuity due to a captain, but merely gratuity due to a lieutenant; and, as in the Army Order it is distinctly stated that where the officer has been gazetted out with permission to retain higher rank from the temporary or substantive rank held 2140 by him at the date of the termination of his service, the gratuity may at once be assessed on the basis of such higher rank, whether he will explain the reason for this differential treatment?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONArmy Order 117 of 1919 referred to acting rank only. As Captain Ellis did not hold acting rank he does not, therefore, come under the provisions of that Army Order.