On the enlisting, discharging, and pensioning of soldiers : with the official documents on these branches of military duty / by Henry Marshall.
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
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![seven years, in their respective ranks as non-commissioned offi- cers, and must have been discharged as such. The gratuity to the serjeant shall be L. 15 ; corporal, L. 7 ; private, L. 5. The names and services of the individuals receiving the gra- tuity shall be published in regimental orders, and sent to the pa- rishes to which they belong, after the Commander-in-Chief shall have confirmed the regimental commanding officer's recommen- dation, and after the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital shall have notified to the Secretary at War that the gratuities have been paid. In corps of a lower establishment than 700 rank and file, one individual may be recommended every year for the above-men- tioned gratuity, to be selected by alternate years ; that is to say, one year a serjeant or corporal, the next year a private. [Discharged soldiers receiving a gratuity for meritorious con- duct, shall be entitled to wear a silver medal, having on one side of it the words, “ For Long Service and Good Conduct,” and on the other side, in relief, the King’s arms, with the name and rank of the soldier, and the year inscribed on the medal. The medal will be transmitted by the Adjutant-general to the officer commanding the regiment, who will deliver it to the soldier on the parade, with the parchment certificate of discharge, on which the grant will be recorded, as well as in the regimental orders, and in the register of soldier’s services. If circumstances should prevent the discharged soldier from receiving the medal at the regiment, it will be delivered to him through the Adjutant-general, at the Board of the Chelsea Com- missioners.]—Art. 50. By order of the King, signified to the Secretary at War, July 30, 1830.—H. H. 51. In order to secure the interests of the soldier, at the close of his military service, a regimental board shall henceforward be assembled under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, for the purpose of verifying the following particulars, before any soldier be recommended to be discharged. “ In order to secure to the deserving soldier, when discharged, a pro- vision proportioned to the length and nature of his service, and to enable Our Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital to carry into full](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21954203_0231.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
