ABOUT JUNIOR OFFICERS
T 0 METHODS OF APPOINTMENT.
Some remarks on the appointment of officers to th 9 Reinforcements from the Territorial Forces were made by the Defence Minister .yesterday. Mr. Allen referred especially to tho rule which makes it possible for young men to get commissions in the Reinforcements by serving as a commissioned officer in the cadets or territorials for six months. "We are not drawing very largely from the Territorials now for our junior officers," said Mr. Alien, "and I think tliat this, present restrictions on the appointment of commissioned officers will have to be extended. 'Hie six months' piobation as a) Territorial officer is, in my opinion, rather too short a time. I approved of the original scheme by which we brought in the real Territorial officers who had served as s'u<sh, but I have pretty considerable doubt about the officers coming to us now through the Senior Cadet and Territorial ranks with only six months' service. I must say that I like cur own scheme of promoting men through the non-commissioned ranks. We are trying now also to make arrangements to secure some commissions for returned soldiers who go back to the front with the Reinforcements. We are asking the G.O.C. in Egypt to alter the rules in this respect."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 6
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215ABOUT JUNIOR OFFICERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 6
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