§ 12. Sir THOMAS BRAMSDONasked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether Mr. C. Kemp, late No. 204826, Royal Navy, A.B., was discharged from the Royal Navy early in 1914, time expired, and passed to the Royal Fleet Reserve; whether he was recalled to the Service on the 2nd August, 1914, and admitted to hospital suffering from valvular disease of the heart on the 15th August, 1914, and invalided; and whether, in view of the fact that this man's disease is, in the opinion of his medical adviser, directly due to his pre war service and that he is now totally in capacitated from earning a livelihood, it is proposed to award him an adequate pension on the scale laid down by the Ministry of Pensions for similar cases caused by serving since 2nd August, 1914?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Sir James Craig)I have been asked to reply to this question. Mr. Kemp's disability was regarded by the Admiralty at the time 1566 of his discharge as not being due to his pre-war service and that question cannot now be re-opened. Mr. Kemp has appealed to the Pension Appeal Tribunal on the ground that his disability was caused or aggravated by his service in the present War, but the Tribunal rejected the claim. In these circumstances, it has only been possible to award a pension of £9 18s. a year for life, that being the amount to which Mr. Kemp is entitled under Article 1932 of the King's Regulations in respect of his total period of service.