30 November 2010
11:3082392Done!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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30 November 2010
19:4482487Signed up too - number 43510.
My Dad was made up to a Sergeant in the Grenadier Guards early in 1940, but was wounded in May just before Dunkirk, losing his left leg.
He did get a disability pension, but not as a sergeant, but his lower rank. This anomoly has obviously being going on for a long time.
Roger
1 December 2010
22:4982682Done went straight from link
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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2 December 2010
08:4482714I'm sorry to hear that, Roger.
Indeed, this queston over rank has been happening a long time. One of the casualties we featured in the 90th Anniversary of the Unknown Warrior project (exhibition in the library now) was killed in October 1916. He'd been a sergeant in the Territorials, and volunteered for The Buffs after the first day of the Somme. He died, according to his commanding officer, with "his stripes still on him". We're told the order reverting him to Private on his transfer was dated the day after his death. His widow, however, received only a Private's pension.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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2 December 2010
08:5282718Disgraceful Maggie, absolutely disgraceful - as is this case in hand.
Hope this wrong gets righted.
Roger