§ Sir WILLIAM BULLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether the provisions in Army Council Instruction No. 1251, dated the 12th August, 1917, that regimental officers holding acting rank while with the Expeditionary Force will in future retain such rank on their return to this country so long as they remain on 1324W the active list subject to the conditions therein set out, will be made retrospective seeing that otherwise injustice will be inflicted on temporary officers who, volunteering early in the War, were invalided home on account of sickness or wounds prior to the issue of Army Council Instruction No. 1251, and are not now considered fit enough for service overseas or are employed on special work at home by order of the military authorities or by request of the Ministry of Munitions?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe effect is retrospective. Any officer who applies will get his rank, if he is eligible.