THE "D" MEN.
MAY BE MEDICALLY RE ■EXAMINED. Complaint has been made in Wellington and elsewhere recently that the Defence authorities have been' calling up men classed "D'' for medical re-examination. When the scheme for combing out the men rejected as partially unfit- was first announced, it was stated that only the "02" men would be re-examined, for the feason that these were -the only men that would be at all likely to prove fit for service, even after the special training which they were, to receive. The Minister of Defence was asked yesterday whether it was a fact that the papers of "D" men were being looker over, and whether any of these men were being called up for .medical re-ex-arnihation. "So far as T know," said Sir James Allen, ''the papers of the 'D' men arc not being looked through again, hut there is not t'fie slightest reason why the special medical board which is dealing with the matter should not re-ex-amine the 'D' men's papers if the medical officers think fit. I have before me now the case of a 'D' man who was wrongly put into this class. Tie has now been classified 'C2.' My impression is that this case was discovered accidentally.''
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1917, Page 2
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207THE "D" MEN. Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1917, Page 2
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