§ General CROFTasked the Undersecretary of State for War whether a recent Army Council Instruction was intended to deprive men who had served part of their time in the Royal Navy or Royal Marines from benefiting under the 326W recent allowance of 1d. per day for each year of service; and whether, bearing in mind the fact that a unit of Engineers was formed in September, 1914, which was called the Divisional Engineers of the Royal Naval Division, the members of which were attested in the Royal Marines, and some of whom served with the Royal Naval Division at Gallipoli and in France, it was intended that men who had served in this unity in a purely military capacity were to be deprived of this grant?
§ Mr. FORSTERThis special case had not previously been brought to my notice. I will consider it and communicate with my hon. and gallant Friend in due course.