§ Earl WINTERTONasked the Secretary of State for War and Air if he is aware that the kit belonging to ex-Sergeant Henry Arthur Funnell, No. 7,937, 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment, of 112½, Clarendon Park Road, Leicester, who was mobilised in India in January, 1915, at Multan, and sent to Mesopotamia, which was stored in India under regimental arrangements, and which he was promised by the adjutant would be sent home to him, has been lost; that ex-Sergeant Funnell was informed by the depôt in India in November, 1919, that his kit had been sent to the Royal West Kent depôt at Maidstone; that, on his applying for it, the officer commanding informed him that there was no trace of his kit; that, on the advice of the War Office, ex-Sergeant Funnell wrote to the general officer commanding the Eastern Command and 69W claimed £50 compensation for his kit, at the end of April, and has not yet had any reply; and if he will cause inquiry to be made into this case?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONI am making inquiries, and will let the Noble Member know the result.