HC Deb 05 July 1917 vol 95 cc1309-10W
Mr. R. McNEILL

asked the Undersecretary of State for War if he is aware that a number of letters addressed by relatives in England to Corporal J. H. E. Watkins, No. 1176, Signalling Section, German East Africa, have been returned to the senders; why letters properly addressed have not been forwarded to this soldier at whatever place he was sent to after leaving hospital; if he will give instructions by cable to inform Watkins that his relatives have written to him but that their letters have not reached him; and how letters should now be addressed to Corporal Watkins so as to reach him in due course?

Mr. MACPHERSON

I have no information as to the first two parts of the question. The answer to the third part is in the negative. Watkins' friends were informed in April that he was in South Africa, and they have no doubt communicated with him there. Letters should be addressed care of General Hospital, Wynberg, unless the relatives have received some other address from him.