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Title: Royal Marines - Retirement Age
Post by: Suffolksurfer on Tuesday 19 September 06 21:49 BST (UK)

Does anyone know at what age a man would finish his "career" with the Royal Marines (time frame mid-1800's)?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Royal Marines - Retirement Age
Post by: Christopher on Friday 18 July 08 19:36 BST (UK)

Hello Suffolksurfer,

I've got as far as some information around the mid 1800s for you ... it's on the National Archives site and relates to  Pay and Pension Records: Commissioned Officers.  (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=46) Half pay was a retainer for the services of unemployed officers .... there were no general scheme of retirement before the mid-1800s, half pay frequently operated as a type of superannuation and no test of actual fitness was applied.

I'll see if I can find what happened between then and the start of the 1900s.

If you can find either an online copy, or a hard copy, of the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act 1865 that might mention something about the retirement age.

One of the posters on the Armed Forces board may be able to assist you. Keep an eye
on the  Armed Forces - Retirement Ages and Pensions  (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=316088.msg1970731#msg197073) thread on the Armed Forces board. 

Christopher