27. Colonel YATEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office what steps have now been taken to cheapen the cost of officers' uniforms; and what articles can now be purchased by officers from ordnance stores?
Sir A. WILLIAMSONA grant towards the provision of uniform will be given to every officer on being commissioned, and an Army Order on the subject is about to be issued. The grant will normally be £50, but in corps for which full dress is sanctioned the grant is increased to £135. Service pattern articles which form part of an officer's equipment, and clothing and necessaries of rank and file pattern, can, if desired, be purchased from store. Revolvers, binoculars and prismatic compasses, which officers have hitherto had to provide at their own expense, will in future be, issued free where necessary.