§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War, concerning a soldier who enlisted in February, 1915, has served two years and five months in Egypt, is strained and partially ruptured as the result of carrying gas cylinders in the trenches, is classed B 2, and is now forty-five years of age, whose wife died recently and left two daughters, aged ten and twelve, for whom a grandmother, who has had the care of the two motherless girls thrown upon her, is only entitled to draw 13s. a week separation allowance, although she is without means of her own, whether, having regard to the circumstances mentioned and to the fact that the soldier is by trade a boot maker and would therefore be employed on work of national importance if he were released from the Army, he is willing to consider the case with a view to the release of this soldier?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI will have inquiry made into this case if my hon. Friend will furnish me with the soldier's name, unit, and regimental number.