§ Mr. FRANCIS MEEHANasked the Secretary for War whether he is aware that Frank M'Morrow, of Manorhamilton, county Leitrim, who had served eighteen years in the service of the Government, eleven years of which he served in the 1179W Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd battalion, was, through illness and a short absence in America, deprived of his reserve pay and pension, and that on his applying to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, S. W., in January last, he was refused any further consideration; and whether, having regard to the fact that M'Morrow is now disabled and destitute of all means of living, he will recommend that he be at least allowed his reserve pay?
§ Mr. HALDANEThis man was never entitled to a pension, and, therefore, was never deprived of any pension. He forfeited his reserve pay for absence, and as reserve pay is only given for actual service in the Reserve he is not in any way entitled to draw such pay.