§ MR. DANE (Fermanagh, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Sergeant William Stevenson, of the Donegal Artillery, was seriously injured whilst upon duty travelling on the Londonderry and Letterkenny line of railway in the collision on the 21st June, 1891; whether he was subsequently discharged as having thereby become permanently disabled; whether, on the 23rd September, 1892, the Accountant General of the War Department intimated to him that, under the circumstances, an allowance of 3s. 6d. per day, limited to a period of six months, had been granted to him; what was Sergeant Stevenson's record whilst in the Artillery, and to what pension was he entitled (if any) under the Army Regulations; and whether, having regard to all the circumstances and the fact that Sergeant Stevenson has a helpless family of nine children depending entirely upon him, the War Office will award him a moderate life pension?
§ *MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANSergeant Stevenson, who was injured in a railway accident in 1891, was discharged in 1892 suffering from bronchitis, which could scarcely be said to be the result of the accident. He was granted six months' sick allowance. The Regulations do not admit of the grant of a pension, unless it is clearly proved that the discharge was for unfitness for further service in consequence of the accident.