§ Sir T. BRAMSDONasked the Secretary of State for War whether certain military officers retired from the Service before the War and employed in the War Office Postal Censorship, received the military gratuity on the closing down of the censorship, while the other officers in that Department, though ranking for the purposes of pay as military officers, have up to the present received no gratuity whatever; and whether it is proposed that the latter shall also be paid the gratuity?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLA few retired military officers who were employed in the Postal Censorship were called up in the early days of the War and gazetted to military posts. It was decided shortly after the inception of the Postal Censorship that the work was not generally of a military character, and thereafter retired military officers were employed in a civilian capacity. The former class of officers became entitled automatically to the Pay Warrant gratuity. The latter class, being employed as civilians, were not so entitled.