Mr. CARTERasked the Minister of Pensions whether Private William Whittet, No. 202,239, 4th Black Watch, who enlisted in December, 1914, and was wounded twice and gassed in 1915, was discharged on 8th November, 1917, as no longer physically fit for war service, and died of pneumonia on 31st July, 1919; whether his widow is in receipt of a pension of 5s. 6d. a week under Article 17 of the Royal Warrant, with no provision for her two children; whether this means that her right to a full pension is denied on the ground that her husband's death was not due to, or accelerated by war service; and whether he will have special inquiries made into the case?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the question put to me on the 22nd instant by my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee (Mr. Wilkie), of which I am sending him a copy.