Officers' Emergency Reserve.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 24 January 1940.

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Photo of Mr Frederick Montague Mr Frederick Montague , Islington West

asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will consider the serious inconvenience occasioned to members of the Air Force Emergency Reserve by the receipt of notices to hold themselves in readiness to act promptly on receipt of specific instructions when these notices are still outstanding after months of waiting; and whether he is aware that in many instances arrangements have been long unnecessarily made in respect of the transfer of businesses, etc.?

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