§ Lieut.-Colonel Sir GILBERT WILLSasked the Secretary of State for India whether officers of the British Army who have served in Franco and who transfer to the Indian Army lose nine months' seniority; whether they are in a less favourable condition than cadets who obtain a commission from a cadet school in India; and if he can state the rules on the subject?
§ Mr. MONTAGUOfficers who received their first commission in the British Service from the Royal Military College count the whole of their commissioned service towards seniority on transfer to the Indian Army. Officers who held commissions in the Territorial Force or Special Reserve or temporary commissions in the British Service forfeit, for purposes of seniority, nine months of their embodied commission service on transfer to regular commissions in the Indian Army, in accordance with a similar rule which was laid down by the War Office in the case of officers granted regular commissions in the British Service. This rule was adopted in order to prevent the super-session of officers who had been granted regular commissions from the Royal Military College, or from the Cadet Colleges at Quetta and Wellington, by officers who had not been at a training college.