§ Mr. PROTHEROasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether a man of eighteen years of age and under the age of nineteen, who enlists under the Military Service Act, 1916, and the Proclamation of 16th April, 1916, is enlisted under the general attestation form applicable to the rest of the Army; whether this form contains nothing to show that the man is enlisted for training and service at home and is ineligible for foreign service till he attains the age of nineteen; and whether it is the intention of the War Office to provide special attestation forms for this class of enlisted men?
§ Mr. TENNANTNo special attestation form is contemplated. If the recruit comes up under the group system he is attested on a duration of war attestation form, or if under the Military Service Act a form of enrolment is filled in. Instructions have been issued which provide for no recruit being sent overseas for active service before he is nineteen years of age.