asked, in further reference to the accident to Lieutenant Dawson, of the North Midland Field Ambulance, if, when the accident referred to occurred, Lieutenant Dawson was occupied in the duty of taking a horse of the Territorial Force back to headquarters; and whether he was still on the manœuvring area in uniform, and in the company and under the command of Captain Wraith, a superior officer, by whom, if the accident had not happened, he would have been dismissed from duty on his arrival at headquarters?

I regret that I can add nothing to the answer given to a similar question on 22nd April of this year.

Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the final statement made in the question is true or not—that is, whether this officer was on military duty at the time?

There are always cases of hardship in dealing with questions of this kind, which are on the border line. I do not demur to the statement in the question, but what I said in answer to the previous question was that that did not bring this case within the Regulations.