THE INADEQUACY OF OFFICERS' WIDOWS' PENSIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF
THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sts,—Before a " Major-General's Wife " accused me of inaccuracy in my facts it is a pity she did not take the trouble to verify her own. I am the widow of a Lieutenant-General, and my pension is .2120 a year. And I have never heard of any gratuities being granted in peace time, except for wounds, to officers themselves. She entirely ignores the fact that I spoke only of the widows of officers of the Regular Army. I know nothing of what is being done for the widows of temporary officers killed in action. But I am absolutely certain of my facts as I stated them, and I believe the gratuities she mentions exist only in her imagination. Poe sibly in some very exceptional case a small gratuity might be granted, but the case would be very exceptional. A " Major- General's Wife " does not seem to have noticed that I did not allude to war pensions, but to conditions which have obtained for possibly a hundred years.—I am, Sir, &c.. FIAT JUSTITIA.
Previous page
