§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will order that the same promotion to temporary medical commissions shall be given to non-commissioned officers and men of the Territorial Force, Royal Army Medical Corps, as is given to those ranks of the Regular Royal Army Medical Corps under Army Order 293, of 1918?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe scheme of promotion to commissioned rank was instituted to provide a limited number of officers to replace medical officers in field ambulances. The candidates required are those who have long experience, not only in this War but also in peace, of the technical and skilled duties connected with the appointments, and it is not, therefore, proposed to extend the scheme to non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force).