HC Deb 04 December 1919 vol 122 c618W
Viscount WOLMER

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Mrs. Taylor, 115, A Square, Married Quarters, McGregor Barracks, Aldershot, has not yet been granted a passage to Gibraltar, although her husband, Sergeant W. Taylor. No. 2018, Royal Army Medical Corps, was sent there over six months ago; and, in view of the fact that this soldier has served abroad since 1911, whether arrangements will be made to expedite his wife's journey to Gibraltar, where he has secured lodgings for her?

Mr. CHURCHILL

Mrs. Taylor embarked on s.s. "Czar," which sailed from Devonport on 1st December for Gibraltar.

Colonel MORDEN

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Lieut.-Colonel Hosken, of the 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, paid his wife's passage to India in December, 1914; whether some of his brother officers were given free passages for their wives by transport, whilst other officers received compensation for passage money paid by them; whether Indian Army Headquarters took up the matter with the War Office many months ago with a view to Lieut.-Colonel Hosken receiving compensation; and, as no compensation has as yet been paid, what are the reasons for the delay?

Mr. CHURCHILL

I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to my reply to-day to an oral question asked by the hon. and gallant Member for Faversham.

Major WHELER

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will reconsider the decision of the War Office not to grant a refund of the passage money to the wives of Territorial officers who went out to India to join their husbands during the War prior to 25th November, 1915?

Mr. CHURCHILL

This is now a somewhat ancient question, which was very fully considered by my predecessor at the time I am not prepared to reopen it.