Colonel THORNEasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that there are about 500,000 men in the Labour Corps, many of them below Grade B 1 and cannot enlist in the new Army; if he is aware that the Labour Corps was not formed until 1917; what position these men are in seeing that the Army of Occupation men are men called up after 1916?
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Captain GUESTThe number of men in the Labour Corps is 231,000. Although the Labour Corps was not formed until 1917, a very large number of the men are eligible for demobilisation. The remainder are liable to be retained for service in the Army of Occupation.