Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether, under Army Council Instruction 344 of 1916, soldiers who were sent to work in munition factories are entitled to the war gratuity for the period they were working in those factories; and, if not, will he explain what this Instruction means?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThe Instruction of 1916 reserved to the soldier munition worker his ordinary Army emoluments up to the date of starting work in civil employment, and thereafter such civil pay as he might earn, but no Army emoluments save as specified later in the Instruction. War gratuity was not so specified, and the Royal Warrant granting that gratuity expressly excluded these men for the period during which they drew full civil wages.