Barry,
Forgive me if I have misunderstood this but, if I have gotit right, your
ancestor was thought to have died and so the War Office paid hiswidow a
pension. Later it emerged that he was still alive and so they stoppedit. Is
that right? That seems pretty reasonable and logical to me. They wouldhave
replaced it with his missing pay as a soldier, for the period they thoughthe
was dead. So she wouldn’t have been out of pocket. In fact she’d have
beenbetter off.
Elwyn
On Monday 5 May 2025 at 03:30:07 BST, barry woolner via CoTyroneList
<[email protected]> wrote:
I was looking through one of the updates and noticed this entry.In days past,
with poor communication channels, how often has something like this
occurred?Was he amused?My great-grandmother received a widow's pension when her
husband died in WWI.I have a copy of the pension record card with a "cancelled"
stamp across it. My great-grandfather had been a POW and returned at the end of
the war.We can't imagine this would happen now. I gather only the officers were
recorded as POW's, and their families knew they were okay. There are no records
of ordinary soldiers. Given my great-grandfather was good working-class stock,
nothing. I assume this happened to many thousands of
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