§ Major NEWMANasked whether the task of burying the dead, the clearing up of battlefields, and similar non-combatant work is now undertaken by the Non-Combatant Corps and troops of the combatant branches relieved as far as possible of this duty?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe burying of the dead involves going into the firing line, and the members of the Non-Combatant Corps could not, therefore, under the pledges which have been given, be allotted this duty.