HC Deb 26 March 1946 vol 421 c195
29. Major Legge-Bourke

asked the Secretary of State for War if arrangements can be made for students to serve in specified units so that they may, in their spare time, continue their studies.

Mr. Lawson

So far as military students at the Army Formation Colleges are concerned every possible effort is made to ensure that they are not posted away until they have completed the particular course on which they are engaged. Otherwise no special arrangements can be made for the posting of students to specified units.

Major Legge-Bourke

Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that this procedure was adopted by the French in their conscription system before the war, and would he give this matter further consideration?

Mr. Lawson1

Yes, Sir. It is one of the matters about which I am much concerned.

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