§ Mr. LANSBURYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Stickney, of the Army Ordnance Corps, had a clean conduct sheet for 16½ years; and that in the last twelve months of his service he was severely reprimanded once and tried by district court-martial three times; and will he state the results of these courts-martial?
§ Colonel SEELYThe reply to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the third part of the question, the first court-marital was 1425W quashed by the Army Council on account of technical irregularities; the second court-martial sentenced him to loss of seniority; and the third court-martial, held at sea on the voyage home from South Africa, was adjourned, as he objected to the charge on the ground that after he had elected to be tried by district court-martial the charge against him was materially altered. The court-martial was not proceeded with as he was invalided out of the Army.