§ 14. Sir A. BENNasked the Secretary of State for India if he will state what pension will be paid to the widow of a 1st lieutenant Indian Army Reserve of Officers who died in India during last October from fever said to be a recurrence of fever contracted whilst on active service in Mesopotamia?
§ Mr. FISHERThe widow of a lieutenant of the Indian Army Reserve of Officers dying of disease certified by the proper medical authority as directly traceable to fatigue, privation or exposure incident to active service in the field, would be granted a pension of £100 a year; if the case did not come within this "rule, but death was certified to be due to disease attributable to or aggravated by military service the widow would be granted £75 a year; and in either case, if the marriage took place before the commencement of the officer's military service, the widow might be granted, in lieu of the foregoing pension, an alternative pension, the amount of which would depend on the income of her husband before he joined the Army, but which would not exceed £.300 a year.