§ Captain D. HALLasked the Undersecretary of State for War if Lady Mary Pocock, widow of the late Colonel Sir George Pocock, Baronet, of the 30th Regiment, who died on 6th December, 1915, has been refused a pension on the grounds that her husband failed to complete ten years' active service; if Colonel Sir George Pocock was unable to complete this service owing to his having lost one arm in the service of his country in the Crimea, being also badly wounded in the other wrist so that he never regained full control of his remaining hand; if he was receiving his half-pay as colonel and pension up to the date of his death; and if, in view of her husband's services, he can see his way to granting a pension to Lady Mary Pocock, who is in great need of the same?
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§ Mr. FORSTERI am afraid it is impossible to attribute this officer's death, which occurred some sixty years after he left the Service, to the wounds he had received, and I have no power to grant a pension in such a case