HC Deb 20 November 1919 vol 121 cc1155-6W
Mr. N. MACLEAN

asked the Secretary of State for War whether Lieut.-Colonel G. S. Haines, who failed to establish his case at a court-martial on Quartermaster and hon. Lieut. A. Canning in June, 1918, was commandant of the camp of prisoners of war at Newbury during September, 1914; and whether the subsequent removal of Lieut.-Colonel G. S. Haines from the active list as a re-employed officer is connected with this failure?

Mr. CHURCHILL

Lieut.-Colonel G. S. Haines was commandant of the Prisoners of War Camp, Newbury, from the 26th August, 1914, to the 22nd January, 1915. Quartermaster and hon. Lieut. A. Canning was tried by court-martial in June, 1918, and acquitted. The removal of Lieut.-Colonel Haines from the active list was not directly connected with this court-martial.