HC Deb 24 April 1918 vol 105 cc1010-1W
Major ASTOR

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether boys of eighteen and a half years are to be put and kept in the firing line, or is their training, which has been interrupted, to be completed in France before they are put regularly into fighting units?

Mr. MACPHERSON

Boys of eighteen and a half years have only been sent to France when they have completed sufficient training to enable them to take their place in the firing line.