§ 100. Mr. GINNELLasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office what is the scale of allowance to dependants of a soldier when the soldier, after twenty-one years' service, loses his health in the Army, is discharged, and dies soon after; why nothing has yet been given to Margaret Clarke, Boyle, widow of Sergeant Thomas Clarke, No. 5467, permanent staff, 4th Battalion, Connaught Rangers; whether he is aware that the sickness from which he died originated in a fall from a transport wagon last May, causing concussion of the brain, and ultimately insanity; and whether proper provision will be made at once for the widow and her three children?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTER of PENSIONS (Colonel Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen)Pensions to widows and other dependants of soldiers who die from injuries received in the performance of military duty or from disease contracted on active service, are given according to the published scale without reference to length of service. The pension to which it has been ascertained Mrs. Clarke is entitled will be paid at the usual family rate as soon as she returns completed the form which was sent to her some days ago. In the meantime, her late husband's pension is payable up to the 7th instant.