On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall.

Date:
1839
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Credit: On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Private From To s. d. s. d. 0 6 .. 1 0 Corporal .... Who shall have served con- tinuously as Corporal Five Years immediately preced- ing his discharge 0 8.. 1 2 £>h - > ® Serjeant, Co- Who shall have served con- ! I |l 1 a s 5*q s « « oj lour Serjeant, tinuously as a Non-Com- Troop Ser- missioned Officer Five 5 p « jeant Major . Years, of which the Three Years immediately preced- ing his discharge shall have been as Seijeant . . 0 10..1 4 s s-aSJ a) ^ a t- zi w y o cS £ £ 8 Ditto Who shall have served con- O CS-H4J 0 a « > a m .-H r—< — — tinuously as Serjeant Five Years immediately preced ing his discharge 1 0..1 6 The in each tual Se the Infi in no c« Quarter Master Who shall have served con- An addition to the Serjeant, Ser- tinuously as such Three Pension to which he jeant Major . Years immediately preced- would have been enti- ing his discharge tied as a Serjeant of 3d. a Day for a Quarter Mas- ter Serjeant, and of 6d. a Day for a Serjeant Major. By this warrant, a soldier’s ordinary pension after twenty-one years’ service is sixpence a day in lieu of one shilling, or tenpence if a man retired at his own request, by the warrant of 1829. Soldiers who have served twenty-five years in the infantry are entitled by the warrant of 1829 to receive each a pension of Is. 2d., but by the war- rant of 1833, they will receive only 8d. Men who have served twenty-one years in the infantry, or twenty-four years in the cavalry, are well entitled to a pension, upon which they may be able to exist; but alsoldier who has been long accustomed to the pay and comforts of the army, is not able to live upon 6d. a day,—he must become a pauper. Recruits seldom think of pensions when they enter the army, but after ten or twelve years service, this subject engages much of their attention ; and those who have en- listed since 1833, will be apt to draw comparisons, and to find that they have been less liberally dealt with than men who en- listed before that period. This circumstance may lead to ill- humour, discontent, and ultimately to malingering for the purpose of being discharged. In the event of the breaking-out of a war, jjpd a large augmentation of the army being necessary, a higher