Mr. RUTHERFORDasked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the case of Private G. T. Hawthorne, who was No. 7111 in the 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was in the Army at the time war broke out, and spent one year 182 days on active service, and retired as time-expired and not medically discharged, and afterwards, on the 26th September, 1916, was recalled to the Colours under the Military Service Act, and on presenting himself before a medical board was rejected, owing to running ears and rheumatism, diagnosed by the medical officers as being due to the effects of shell shock; whether Hawthorne, having made an application for the silver badge, has been refused, by an intimation from Preston on the 6th November instant to that effect, on the ground that he was not discharged under Paragraph 392 XVI. K. R.; and whether, under the circumstances, the War Office will let this man have the silver badge?
§ Mr. FORSTERInquiries are being made, and Hawthorne will be given the badge if eligible.