§ Captain WRIGHTasked the Undersecretary of State for War why appropriate acting rank was given to officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps recently sent overseas with special Territorial general hospitals, who are by special arrangement to serve for a minimum period of three months and to be relieved when necessary, when similar appropriate acting rank has been refused to officers of the same corps occupying similar positions in Territorial hospitals in France who have been serving in His Majesty's Forces before the war and continuously since mobilisation, and in some cases for over two years at the Front, and who are subject to no such special arrangements as to minimum period of service or relief?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONWhen a general hospital is mobilised at home appropriate rank is given to the superior officers of the unit, but it has been decided that acting promotions need not be given in the case of vacancies occurring in units serving abroad. As stated in the reply which I gave my hon. and gallant Friend a week ago the question of acting promotions in such cases is under consideration.