* * * Army Form B199A (Revised 1949) is a
tremendously complicated document which all officers are required to complete in order to bring their personal records at the War Office up to date. It includes a photostat copy of the officer's record in its existing form, and the second of the thirty-two paragraphs which instruct him how to fill the form up lays down : " If the photostat document contains any erroneous information, you must nevertheless transfer it to the new documents and detail the inaccuracies in a statement addressed to the War Office, which should be pinned to the original copy." A good many people have grumbled at this cumbrous procedure, but few, I think, more justifiably than an officer in a Highland regiment whom I met the other day. His photostat document includes the entry, " Died of wounds."
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