HC Deb 23 June 1902 vol 109 c1369
MR. JAMES O'KELLY (Roscommon, N.)

To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Pat Dolan, now resident at Cortobber, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, enlisted on 20th January, 1857 in the 3rd Battalion 60th Regiment of Foot (regimental number 1,313); that he was discharged, after serving twelve years and 278 days on sixpence a day pension for three years; and that he was eighteen years of age at the time of enlistment; and will he say whether this man became entitled under the Chelsea Gift to a pension of sixpence per day on attaining the age of fifty years; and will he inquire into his case.

(Answer.) This man was discharged as medically unfit owing to a self-inflicted wound. The temporary pension was granted as an act of grace, the regulations then in force giving him no claim to any deferred pension.—(War Office.)