§ Mr. RENDALLasked the Secretary of State for War why Lance-Corporal Alexander W. Govan, D Company, l/4th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, now with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, an engineer's apprentice to the Golden Valley Paper Mills, Bitton, near Bristol, has not been discharged; whether he has been abroad in Army service for four years, is only twenty-one, and his career is being seriously injured by the delay; if three applications by the employer have been sent in for this boy; and what course he is taking to grant discharge in this and other like cases?
Captain GUESTIf the soldier in question is eligible for demobilisation under existing Regulations, he will be demobilised in due course; if my hon. Friend will inform me of Lance-Corporal Govan's regimental number, I will make inquiries into the case and let him know the result as early as possible.