HC Deb 29 July 1924 vol 176 c1902W
Mr. C. WILSON

asked the Secretary of State for War what proportion of the total number of recruits enlisting in the years 1921, 1922, and 1923, respectively, were discharged as not likely to become efficient soldiers; and whether such discharges were mainly on physical or on what other grounds?

Mr. WALSH

The figures are as follow:

of war conditions on the physique of growing lads, and partly to the number of discharges in connection with the late reductions in the Army.