§ General CROFTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether a brigadier appointed to command a brigade in 1917 or 1918 becomes senior in the field to a brigadier whose appointment dates from 1914, 1915, or 1916 if the former was senior to the latter in the Army List 517W prior to the War; and, if not, when the alteration was made in the Regulation affecting such seniority?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONBrigadiers rank according to their substantive rank and not according to the date of their appointment. This Regulation was in force several years before the outbreak of war.