MEN WHO FOUGHT
BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE. OFFICIAL RECOGNITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright). LONDON, January 21. Of 21,000 ex-servicemen in the Civil Service, 13,000 henceforth will be transferred to the permanent staff under an agreement between the Treasury and the Ex-service-men’s Association. This will create a new class of ex-servicemen Civil Servants, with security of tenure, but without pension rights. The agreement also provides for the institution of a special examination, conferring a permanency and a full pension right on the successful candidates. The agreement crowns five years’ efforts by the Association to secure better official recognition of ex-servicemen.
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Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5
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97MEN WHO FOUGHT Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5
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