§ MR. T. SMYTH (Leitrim, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will reconsider the case of Thomas Henry Bryson, formerly of the Royal Engineers and now of Newtowngore, County Leitrim, who enlisted on 29th December, 1877, and is in possession of the Zulu medal, with the only clasp given for the war, and is disabled with rheumatism, which he contracted whilst on foreign service; and whether, seeing that his pension is only 1s. per day, while other pensioners who served in the the same war have 2s. per day, he will reconsider his case with a view to increasing his pension.
§ *MR. HALDANEThis man was invalided from the Royal Engineers after a service of five years, 332 days only, on account of rheumatism, which commenced at Chatham after he had served for just over a year and before he served abroad. His present pension of 1s. a day is the highest which can be granted to him under the regulations.