HC Deb 17 May 1905 vol 146 cc614-5
MR. J. P. FAERELL (Longford, N.)

To ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the case of James Cox, a shoemaker, who enlisted at Longford, on 18th August, 1882, in the Inniskilling Fusiliers, and was subsequently discharged after four years and ninety-eight days service at Port Lewis, after an attack of fever, as medically unfit for further service, and who received a pension of 6d. a day down to 1896, since which he got nothing; and whether, in view of this man's circumstances, he will cause some grant to be made to him or restore the pension of 6d. a day for a time to tide him over present illness.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) This man's application for a renewal of pension has been considered by the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, who state that he is not eligible for any further grant. There is no fund from which he could be awarded assistance.