§ Mr. Glenvil Hallasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that men given non-combatant service by tribunals and posted to the non-combatant corps who have applied for transfer to the Royal Army Medical Corps, have been informed that such transfers can only be made where the applicant undertakes to sign on also for combatant duties; and whether this stipulation is properly made and in keeping with the intentions of the Government?
§ Mr. EdenI am not aware of any instruction to the effect suggested in the first part of the Question. It would not be necessary for a man to renounce a conscientious objection to combatant duty in order to be transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps. The number of transfers is, of course, dependent upon the vacancies there may be. I should add that the Royal Army Medical Corps has already a large number of conscientious objectors.