Deceased soldiers pensions

[mickey selcon]

Hi All

I appreciate that this topic is slightly out of the First World War timeframe and so might not be right for this forum, but I will ask anyway.

 

I am researching a man who served 21 years in the British Army and who was granted a pension when he finally left the Army in 1910. He was married with 5 children and he died in 1914 from natural causes. Can anyone tell me whether his Army Pension, or part of it would still have been paid to his wife after his death and if so how much would she have received and how long would it have been paid?I have a feeling that she would have received nothing after his death, but it would be great to get a definitive answer.

 

Thank you in anticipation

 

Mike

[Mark1959]

May be worth looking up to see if there is a pension ledger card for him - this may show any widow's pension (as he died in 1914). These are available from fold3 (ancestry) or direct from the Western Front Association if you are a member. It may have been dependent on whether his death was caused by or contributed to by his service.  I understand further cards will be released in the future, What were his military details? 

 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/disability-dependents-pensions-first-world-war/#5-widows-and-dependents-pension-case-files-1910-1932 show a small % of relevant docs exist

Edited 17 July , 2019 by Mark1959

[ss002d6252]

There may be a Mop ledger in the WFA records but the prewar pensions, at least by about 1916, were still retained by the war office rather than being passed to the ministry of pensions. Whether or not they later did or not I don't know.

 

Craig

[rolt968]

4 hours ago, ss002d6252 said:

There may be a Mop ledger in the WFA records but the prewar pensions, at least by about 1916, were still retained by the war office .........

Thanks Craig,

That has answered a question I have been meaning to ask for some time.

RM

[MaureenE]

I  think she would  not have have received any benefits.

 

There is some wording in

"‘Delicate duties’: issues of class and respectability in government policy towards the wives and widows of British soldiers in the era of the great war" by Janis Lomas Women's History Review, 9:1, 2000 pages 123-147.

 

"..those widows who fell foul of the notorious seven year rule. This stated that a woman was only entitled to a pension if the serviceman died of wounds, injuries or disease ‘within seven years of his removal from duty on account of such disease’.[52]

 

[52] Second Report, p. 64.  [probably Second Annual Report of the Ministry of Pensions]

 

Cheers

Maureen