Clause 3. — (Reserve of Territorial Volunteers.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Army Reserve Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 February 1962.

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Photo of Mr Gerald Reynolds Mr Gerald Reynolds , Islington North 12:00, 1 February 1962

Nevertheless, Mr. Williams, it touches on something that I should like to mention a little later.

One must look also at one or two other trades. Take the man, for example, who served in the Royal Army Service Corps or some other unit, as a motor mechanic and is now working full-time in that trade in a garage. Before being called upon to do his National Service he might have served an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic. He has then done his National Service and has gone back to his trade. Is it to be suggested that because he is on the list of a Territorial Army unit but is not doing the 20 or 30 drills a year he could not effectively, and without further training, fill a motor mechanic's position at the necessary rank in a unit that needed such men for the period of an emergency which necessitated the calling up of the Territorial Army Emergency Reserve—