§ COLONEL LOCK WOOD (Essex, Epping)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can state the number of Crimean veterans still living; and whether he can arrange as an act of grace that the pensions of these veterans shall be increased.
1436 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) The number of Crimean veterans still living cannot be stated at short notice. All those in receipt of small pensions, who are in necessitous circumstances, are now being granted special increases provided that they have either been wounded or discharged for disability or are at the present time suffering from a disability clearly due to their military service.