§ Colonel ASHLEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether men may be released from the Army, or at least 1247W transferred to permanent home service, if they have attained the age of fifty-one and completed at least thirteen years' service with the Colours?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONOwing to the urgent need of men for military service, I regret that it was not possible to give any undertaking of the nature suggested. Soldiers of low category who are over fifty are returned from France to England as and when reinforcements arrive to replace, them; soldiers over fifty-five are sent home without replacement, if they express a wish to that effect.