Major JOHN EDWARDSasked the Secretary of State for War why permission was refused to the demobilised officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the London Welsh battalions, who had recruited nearly 5,000 men at Gray's Inn, London, to take part in the march of the London troops through London on Saturday next?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThe Lord Mayor's Mansion House Reception Committee decided that the march of London troops should be confined to units of the City and County Regiments and the Territorial Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Army Service Corps, and Royal Army Medical Corps of the City and County of London. Funds were specifically raised for this purpose. If the Welsh battalions to which my hon. and gallant Friend alludes had been included, this would have meant the introduction of an entirely separate combination of troops which, although it happened to be raised in London, had no actual territorial connection with it. The Welsh battalions in question would be included in any similar function arranged by their own parent organisation.