§ 27. Brigadier-General COCKERILLasked the Secretary of State for War whether officers seconded from the Army on whom higher substantive rank has been conferred by the King in recognition of distinguished service in the Royal Air Force have been deprived of their reward no reverting to their Army unit; and, if so, whether it is possible to arrange that such officers should be gazetted to the equivalent rank in the Army, by brevet or otherwise, and so retain an honour, the loss of which they feel very deeply?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given on the 23rd December last to the Noble Lord the Member for Aldershot. It has been decided that Army officers who return to the Army from the Royal Air Force, in a lower relative rank than that held by them in the latter Service, may resume their Royal Air Force rank upon final retirement from the Army, if such rank is higher than that to which they are entitled under their Army Commissions.