§ Mr. Hewlettasked the Secretary of State for War whether in spite of the difficulty and extra cost, he will consider notifying service casualties to parents as well as to wives?
§ Sir J. GriggIn cases where the wife is abroad, and the parents at home, or when there is domestic estrangement, arrangements for two notifications of a casualty have in many cases been made on request. Applications by parents for such an arrangement to be made, together with the reasons for them should be sent in the case of officers to the War Office (Casualty Branch), Wavertree, Liverpool, 15, and in the case of other ranks, to the appropriate Record Office. I am not aware of any demand for two notifications save in these special circumstances. If generally adopted the issue of two notifications would make additional work, particularly at times of pressure, likely to retard the notification of casualties generally.