Colonel ALAN SYKESasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the soldiers who, before the War, were entitled under paragraph 272 of the King's. Regulations to claim their discharge after due notice and to receive their pension are now compelled to continue serving at their ordinary rates of pay and are not to be paid their pension, which they have already earned, until their discharge at the end of the War, thereby incurring financial loss by standing out of their pensions?
1555W
§ Mr. FORSTERA soldier coming under paragraph 272 of the King's Regulations, after completing the extra twelve months for which he may be retained in time of war under Section 37 (i) of the Army Act -and the three months' notice required by Section 85, may take his discharge and draw his pension, and he is then at liberty to offer himself for re-enlistment, and, if accepted, he draws his pension in addition to his ordinary pay.