§ Sir R. HUTCHISONasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Mr. Patrick Kennedy, late private, No. 103,033, King's Liverpool Regiment, was discharged on 30th April, 1919, with a total of 18 years and five months' service to his credit; that he was pensioned as a disabled man as from the date of demobilisation in respect of a disability accepted as attributable to his service, and that he made a claim for disablement pension before his demobilisation; and whether, in view of the fact that Mr. Kennedy is now in receipt of a permanent disability pension, he will consider an alteration in his discharge documents, in accordance with a decision made at the Standing Joint Committee for ex-service questions in 1921, so as to give him the benefit of a service pension which is ordinarily payable in such cases in respect of 14 years' service only?
§ Mr. SHAWMr. Kennedy was demobilised on 30th April, 1919, after giving 18 years 142 days' total service, of which 4 years 174 days were spent in the Army Reserve. The latter service cannot reckon as qualifying service for pension, and the remaining service is, I regret, not sufficient for an award. There are no grounds for amending Mr. Kennedy's Army documents to show him as having been invalided from the Army.