HC Deb 03 June 1919 vol 116 c1852W
Major O'NEILL

asked the Secretary of State for War in what way a corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps employed in a hospital in France which receives patients from the Army of the Rhine is engaged within the machinery of demobilization?

Mr. CHURCHILL

A corporal who is employed with a hospital in France has to deal with the sick and wounded, the care and evacuation of whom is an essential part of demobilisation, and his services cannot be dispensed with until he can be replaced by a man who is not eligible for demobilisation. In the majority of cases the latter has to undergo a course of training before he can perform the required duties satisfactorily.