§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he is aware that complaints are being made that C 2 men belonging to the 1st Reserve Field Company, Royal Engineers, Territorials, stationed at Sandown Park, are forced to march to Oakshott, a distance of ten miles there and back, and are also marched with men of A class with equipment in the mornings and forced to keep pace with them or go to the guard room, are sent once in every three weeks to Wisley Woods to sleep under canvas, and that C 2 men with valvular disease of the heart are compelled to go through gas drill; and if he will make inquiries into the matters complained of with a view to the protection of the men concerned?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI find on inquiry that there is no foundation for the complaints brought to notice by my hon. Friend. The C 2 men walk short distances to their work at their own pace or sit on waggons. The second part of the question does not therefore arise. No C 2 category men have been called upon to sleep under canvas since the camping season closed. No men physically unfit for gas drill are so trained.