§ MR. PIRIE () Aberdeen, N.To ask the Secretary of State for War can he state the number of non-commissioned officers and of privates respectively who have served in the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny receiving pensions for such service at the present time, and the total amount received by them.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The number of men drawing special campaign pensions was on 30th September, 3,097, and the total received by them amounted to £41,856 a year. These figures do not include men drawing ordinary pensions, who may have served in the Crimea and Indian Mutiny, and whom it would be impossible to trace without going laboriously through all the records.