§ Colonel ASHLEYasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that a clergyman obtained a commission as a chaplain. Class 4, Territorial Force, and was attached to a battalion of the Gloucester Regiment; that he was mobilised on the outbreak of war; that he served until August, 1917, being awarded the Military Cross; that he has been demobilised at his own request; that a gratuity has been refused; and whether he will take steps to issue a gratuity to him as is issued to a temporary Army chaplain who entered the Service after the outbreak of war and who receives a gratuity of sixty days' pay at the end of each year of his service?
§ Mr. FORSTEROfficers so commissioned have no claim under the Regulations to a 1991W gratuity if their service during the emergency is terminated at their own request.