Colonel W. B. Brabazon.

HC Deb 03 April 1911 vol 23 cc1963-4W

Mr. CAVE

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, on Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. Brabazon, deputy naval ordnance officer, being pronounced by a fleet surgeon, on 16th August, 1908, to be unfit for service, the Admiralty requested the War Office to gazette this officer on half-pay; what reply was made by the War Office; and under what regulation this officer, not having been pronounced unfit

Mr. McKENNA

supplied the following particulars:—

by a medical board, was placed on half-pay until 29th June, 1909?

Mr. McKENNA

The communication made to the War Office by the Admiralty in consequence of Colonel Brabazon being pronounced by a Fleet surgeon, in August, 1908, to be unfit for service, was not to the purport suggested in the hon. Member's question. This officer was placed on half-pay during the period of his unfitness for duty at the discretion of the Admiralty, the rate of pay being (hat which would have been paid under Army Regulations if he had been serving under War Office and been found unfit by the medical advisers of that Department.