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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: kenith on Saturday 16 August 08 19:34 BST (UK)
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How was army pensions paid in or around the 1900s?
was there records kept of the payments to the pensioners? are they still in existence?
I am trying to find the date of death of a royal artillery soldier and I was wondering if I find it by the above information
, assuming that the pension people was told of his death and his pension wans`t drawn after his death.
Thanks
Ken
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Since you're looking for his death, can you tell us his name, what you know already (age, the last record of him, his rank and number if you have them etc etc) and where you've looked already for his death record.
Pensions are not necessarily the way to go here.
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The soldier in question was a sergeant John Graham, Royal Artillery. His service number was 17466. He was discharged 1891 and was supposed to return to Belfast.
, the address given on his dicharge papers was Orchard Street Belfast. He was married to a Saint Helena girl and had approx 8 children. He served 24 years in the Artillery.
I have visited all the possible cemetries in Belfast and have found some of his children but not him or his wife.
Any ideas???
Many thanks
Ken.