FEB. 28, r120] OBITUARY. [ JOURNAL 33 lreplace wastage of officers and to provi(le for garrisons in Mesopotamia and Palestine permanent commissions in the R.A.M.C. had been offered to Territorial, Special Reserve, and temporarily commissioned officers, ancl in this way a number of most valuable and experienced officers had been added to the Corps. As far as possible the higher appointments in the Corps will, it is stated, be made by selection froin amongst the officers who have proved

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... oni active service. Other Ranks. The pre-war establishment of warrant officers, noncommissioned officers and men R.A.M.C. was 3,895; at the armistice they numbered 131.361. In addition there were 18,660 Voluntary Aid Detachment general service women in hospitals and other formations in the United Kingdom. Large numbers of such women were employed also in.France, Salonica, and Malta. The strength, of Other ranks in February, 1920, had been reduced to 18,412 and the number of Voluntary Aid Detachment general service women to 4,771, considerable numbers of them being employed in the Rhine army, Black Sea, and Malta. After the armistice measures were taken to enrol further numbers of Voluntary Aid Detachment general service women in order to set free other ranks whot were deinobiltizable, and the system is being followed to the utmost extent.