§ Mr. GWYNNEasked the Secretary of State for War whether, having regard to the assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for War on the reconsideration of the Military Service (No. 2) Bill (as amended in Committee), a man will be required to present himself for medical re-examination who offered himself for enlistment under Lord Derby's scheme in December, 1915, and was, after a careful examination, permanently rejected for organic disease by the doctor appointed by the military authorities to examine recruits, and full particulars of which rejection were entered by that doctor in the man's medical history and forwarded to the military authorities for entry in their register, and those authorities subsequently gave the man a formal discharge?
§ Mr. FORSTERIt depends entirely on the nature of the physical disability recorded and the nature of the medical examination which he had. It is quite possible that two men might accurately be described by the words of the question, of whom one would certainly and rightly be called up and the other would not, or if he were would be immediately permanently rejected. Many men with mild organic defects of the less important kinds are quite fit for some of the less exacting forms of service.