§ 17. Major YERBURGHasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that War Office Regulations at present provide that a Territorial unit must undergo its training at its war station on two out of every three successive years, and that in the numerous cases where the war station is the same as the peace station this Regulation means that such Territorial units in effect undergo their annual training in the locality where the members of such units reside the remainder of the year; and whether, in view of the fact that service in the Territorial Force in most instances implies the sacrifice of a man's annual holiday, he will consider meeting the wishes of such units and encourage recruiting for the Territorial Force by altering the Regulations so as to give such units the opportunity of undergoing their training away from their home station, at any rate, two years out of three instead of only one as at present?
§ Major ATTLEEThe provision referred to applies only to Coast Defence Units of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It is essential that the personnel of these units should be familiar with the armament and lay-out of the defences to which they are allotted in war, and it is only by frequently carrying out their annual training on the spot that the necessary familiarity can be acquired and retained.