Army Pension: George Henry Francis Nicholl

[peter nicholl]

I have my Grandad's Service Record for WWI. He served with the Royal Defence Corps in India, but was discharged in 1917 as Physically Unfit, at the age of 41. The copy is very faint, but it looks as though he was Admitted to Pension in 1919. His Chelsea Number is H 200149: the H is handwritten and the original printed E has been crossed through. The "Board's decision (pension per week)" looks to be £6/5 (Ctgy III), or was it a one-off payment of £65?. He had a wife and Children's Allowance for 5 children.
I have been unable to find when he died (One of my brickwalls), is there any way that I can find out if the Pension was paid and when and why it stopped?
TIA
Peter

[Terry Reeves]

Peter

Have you tried looking in the following series of documents - WO 364 and PIN 26?

Depending on what was wrong with him, you may also try PMG 9 and PMG 42, pension records and gratuities for disabled officers and men, although these are normally associated with wounds.

PIN 82 contains a small sample of widows and dependents pension case files. Sometimes correspondence rumbled on for years after a mans death.

Terry Reeves

[peter nicholl]

Thanks Terry
I had a look and he doesn't appear in PIN26, so my best bet looks like either WO364/2691, or if he was still alive after 1938, WO364/5502: that is if I've read it right. It seems that a visit to Kew is called for.
Peter