Lieut.-Colonel MURRAYasked the Secretary of State for War whether the 1440W committee of the Gordon Highlanders' War Memorial Club made application to the United Services Fund for a grant; whether the committee was informed that regimental associations, as such, are debarred from participating in the fund unless they are willing to forego their regimental character; whether he is aware that the fund is a public one, built up out of profits arising from purchases made by the Army generally, and that the share contributed by the different regiments of the Army amounts to a considerable proportion of the total; and whether, in these circumstances, he can see his way to arrange that the regiments of the British Army be given an opportunity of expressing their opinions on the general principle as to whether or not regimental associations shall be entitled under guarantees to a share of the benefits of the fund?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONIf my hon and gallant Friend will apply to the organising secretary of the United Services Fund, 29, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, S.W.7, he will be glad to give him any information he may require. I may mention that the organisation is not under the War Office.