Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Naval and Military Pensions and Grants. – in the House of Commons am ar 25 Gorffennaf 1922.
Mr Thomas Kennedy
, Kirkcaldy District of Burghs
asked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that Private James Deas, No. 20166, Machine Gun Corps, was transferred to Class W of the army Reserve on the 23rd November, 1916, for work in the mines; that he received notice to join the Army for permanent service in April, 1918; that he subsequently received a notice to report at Grantham for permanent service, which he did; that while on service at Grantham allowances were paid in respect of his child Mary; that his claim in respect of this child and also his child John has now been disallowed, on the ground that they were born 280 days after the date of his transfer to Class W of the Army Reserve; and if he will explain why the date of his transfer to the Army Reserve, in consequence of demobilisation, has been ignored in deciding the question of his eligibility for allowance in respect of his two children mentioned?
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