§ Captain BARNETTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer serving on a peace attestation and with sixteen or seventeen years' service towards pension is compelled, if he applies for and is granted a temporary commission as quartermaster, to forfeit the whole of such service towards pension; whether the effect is to place him in the same position as a civilian who has obtained a temporary commission as quartermaster and served for three years in that capacity; and whether, with a view of remedying this hardship, he will consider the desirability of extending the provisions of Army Order 159 of 1918, so as to include warrant officers and non-commissioned officers granted temporary commissions as quartermasters?
§ Mr. FORSTERNo warrant or non-commissioned officer serving on a normal engagement has been granted a temporary commission as quartermaster unless he has completed at least eighteen years' service.