HC Deb 08 October 1924 vol 177 cc510-1
57. Sir C. OMAN

asked the Secretary of State for War whether the brigade of Regular British Infantry now quartered in Northern Ireland is provided with the normal complement of artillery appropriate to such a unit?

Mr. WALSH

There is not, as suggested in my hon. Friend's question, any normal complement of artillery specially appropriate to an infantry brigade. There is no field artillery in Northern Ireland.

Sir C. OMAN

Is the want of artillery in the Army in the North of Ireland due to a military organisation of a new and strange kind going back to mid-Victorian times, or is there some particular political meaning?

Mr. WALSH

I am not at all responsible for mid-Victorian organisation.