Mr. MACLEANasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that Corporal Bryson, who had 16 years in the Service, re-enlisted at Glasgow in 1915 and was transferred to the Army Reserve on 14th July, 1919; whether he was awarded a life pension; that this man has since died; if he has received application on several occasions for a pension for his wife and child; and whether, in view of the time that his expired since the death of this soldier, he can do anything to ex- 2082W pedite payment of this pension to this woman, together with arrears?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe disease from which this man died was not that for which he was pensioned in his lifetime, nor has it, I regret to say, been found possible to regard it as attributable to his service. The widow is therefore not eligible for pension under Article 11 of the Royal Warrant. She has a right of appeal to the Pensions Appeal Tribunal, which I am prepared to facilitate.