Colonel PHILIPPSasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the Official Army List, published by authority, omits all mention of combatant officers of the Territorial force on the active list, while including medical officers of the Territorial force, officers of the Colonial Militia and Volunteers, officers of the Indian Volunteers, and retired officers of the Territorial force; and whether he will take steps to rectify this omission in future issues of the Official Army List?
§ Mr. HALDANEOn account of the growing size of the Quarterly Army List the Army Council decided that no lists which appeared in the Monthly Army List should be reproduced in the Quarterly Army List. In consequence the regimental lists connected with British and Indian regular forces, the Special Reserve, and the Territorial force, together with other duplicate lists, have been omitted from the Quarterly Army List. The list of officers of the Colonial Militia and Volunteers and of officers of the Indian Volunteers had appeared only in the Quarterly Army List, and were therefore left in that book. The medical officers of the Territorial force are not yet included as regimental officers, but they are included in a seniority list. The list of certain retired officers of the Territorial force is included in the non-effective portion of the Quarterly Army List, which includes officers of all branches.