§ Sir T. Beamishasked the Secretary of State for Defence how long he estimates it will take for a recruit to the proposed Army Volunteer Reserve to become sufficiently trained to take his place as an individual reinforcement with an infantry unit on active service overseas, assuming that he carries out his full training liability; and whether such a period must include one annual training camp.
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§ Mr. ReynoldsA member of the Army Volunteer Reserve sent overseas as an individual infantry reinforcement will have completed at least his first year's training including 15 days' continuous training. Normally he will have had considerably more service than this, because only a minority of these Reservists are ever likely to be required as individual reinforcements, and the most experienced and efficient would be selected.