EX-OFFICERS’ PENSIONS
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY. London, April 18. Dr. Macnamara. a Liberal member of the House of Commons giving evidence before the Parliamentary committee which is inquiring into proposed increases in ex-ranker officers’ pensions, said he knew of a lientenantcolonel who was now a barman, a major who was how a blacksmith s striker and a captain who was now a domestic servant, while many others were casual dock labourers. A battalion commander, with seven medals and eleven clasps, who was seven times wounded in tho Great War, was only receiving 2s. Bd. a day pen-
s ,on - The case was cited of Lieutenant-Colonel Hunt, C.M.G., D. 5.0., D.C.M., who served in the Boer and European Wars, and held a critical point of tho line for five days during the Great Retreat of March, 1918,'and who is now receiving a pension of 4s. a day.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 177, 21 April 1924, Page 7
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