§ Sir W. BULLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether Sergeant R. F. C. Yorke, of the London Scottish Regiment (gun section), was holding the rank of acting second lieutenant on the day of his death in action at Ypres, on 22nd December, 1914; and, if so, having regard to the Government's pledge that the Treasury would allow officers' widows to receive the pension of their husbands' temporary rank in every case, going back to the commencement of the War, he will explain why his widow has only been granted a sergeant's widow's pension?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe rank of acting second lieutenant is not known in the Army, and there is no trace of this non-commissioned officer having been offered a commission.