HC Deb 12 July 1939 vol 349 c2262W
Lieut-Commander Fletcher

asked the Secretary of State for Air how many of the militiamen now being called up will be required for service in the Royal Air Force and if those who serve in the Royal Air Force will be able subsequently to embrace the Royal Air Force as a career should they wish to do so?

Sir K. Wood

About 13,000 of the men being called up under the provisions of the Military Training Act during the next 12 months will be taken into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve: they will be selected from among those who have expressed a preference for Air Force service. Applications by these men for transfer to the Regular Air Force will be considered sympathetically within the establishment.