HC Deb 01 May 1963 vol 676 c122W
85. Mr. G. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for War whether it was with his authority that Lieut.-Colonel Leatham, Commanding Officer of the Welsh Guards, said publicly on 21st April that officers were not being produced by the grammar schools as yet; and whether he will now take steps to permit former grammar school soldiers to obtain commissions in the Welsh Guards.

Mr. Profumo

As Colonel Leatham made clear in the statement he issued on 28th April, the remarks made by him in an earlier Press interview were, I regret, misinterpreted. There is nothing to prevent suitable ex-grammar school boys being commissioned in the Welsh Guards. In the Army as a whole nearly half the students at present going to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, are from grammar schools.