§ Mr. MacVEAGHasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office why the father, mother, and sister of Rifleman James Campbell, No. 6223, Royal Irish Rifles, who reside at 7, Downshire Court, Newry, and are dependent upon him, are allowed only 6d. a day for maintenance, which is deducted from Campbell's pay; whether he is aware that Campbell has served in the present War in Salonika, the Dardanelles, Serbia, and Macedonia, and was wounded, and that he previously served in India and South Africa; whether his 590W allowance to his father, mother, and sister was 12s. a week when he was earning pay as a military telegraphist, but that the War Office refused to continue that allowance; whether he is further aware that his father is eighty years of age and his mother over seventy years of age, and that his sister's husband died on active service, and has a large family entirely dependent on her; and whether the allowance of 12s. a week will now be paid to his relatives and made retrospective, as requested by Campbell?
Captain GUESTInquiries are being made into this case, and the hon. Member will be informed of the result as soon as possible.