asked the Minister for Defence whether he is aware that a number of claims for arrears of pay from men formerly serving in the 22nd Battalion, Western Division, have been rejected on the grounds that they were paid early in April; whether the men concerned state that this is not the case, and that they can produce the testimony of officers under whom they served to prove it, and whether, under these circumstances, he will have enquiries made in the matter.
WRITTEN ANSWERS. - ARREARS OF PAY.
Claims of certain men of the 22nd Battalion for arrears of pay have been disallowed on the ground that the relative pay rolls show that the men referred to were duly paid for the periods covered by their claims. I am not aware that these men dispute the evidence of the pay rolls.