ASSISTANT ADJUTANTS (STAFF PAY).

HC Deb 05 June 1919 vol 116 cc2272-3W

Mr. BENNETT

asked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider the claim to retrospective staff pay of assistant adjutants appointed to the Reserve battalions in India formed out of the depots of regiments in Mesopotamia, seeing that officers who have held these posts before the issue of Army Instruction (India) No. 1,458, of 1918, authorising staff pay of Rs. 90 a month to assistant adjutants of British Reserve battalions, have been deprived of extra pay which they have earned and to which they would have been entitled but for the absence of retrospective effect?

Mr. MONTAGU

I have asked the Government of India for a Report on the subject, and will communicate with the hon. Member.