§ Mr. MacNEILLasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Mrs. Mary Ennis, the widow of a soldier who served in the Army for 21 years, and the mother of three sons who all were in active service in the Army, and of whom the eldest died after 15 years' service in the Army, the second is at present serving in India, and the third, owing to ill-health brought on by service, has been discharged on a pension of 6d. a day, was herself employed in the military laundry, Dublin, for 13 years and seven months, but on her retirement from that position owing to ill-health 810W was declared to be ineligible for a compassionate gratuity because she had not completed a total period of employment for 15 years; and whether, having regard to her ill-health and straitened circumstances and the services of her husband and sons in the Army, any steps will be taken by way of pension or compassionate allowance for the relief of her necessities?
§ Mr. HALDANEThe hon. and learned Member is evidently unaware that Mrs. Mary Ennis has already had grants from the Army Compassionate Fund of £3 in 1907, £3 in 1908, and £5 in 1909. She is not eligible for any pension or gratuity.