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.
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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![or to the General Hospital in Dublin, in order that the remarks of the military and medical authorities at those stations may be inserted in the discharge; and on the day appointed for the Commissioners to hold a Board at Chelsea, or Kilmainham, the principal medical officer, or the staff-surgeon who has had the soldier, whose case is before the Board, under treatment at the General Hospital, will attend, with an abstract of his professional observations on each man’s case, when the Board will decide upon the claim to pension. If the regimental investigation shall have been held abroad, the General, or superior officer on the station, will, according to his judgment, order the soldier to a convalescent station abroad, or to the Invalid Depot at Chatham. Upon the report of the military and medical authorities at the Invalid Depot at Chatham, or at the General Hospital in Dublin, the Commander-in-Chief will give the necessary orders for the personal appearance of the soldier at Chelsea, or Kil- mainham, or for his joining the depot companies of his regiment, or for his final discharge, according to the circumstances of the case ; but no soldier who may have been sent from the Invalid Depot Chatham, or from the General Hospital Dublin, to his regiment, on a medical report of his fitness for duty, shall be returned to the said Depot or Hospital, until after the expira- tion of one year, unless specially directed to be so returned by the Commander-in-Chief. [And whenever a decision shall have been given by order of the Commander-in-chief, to retain a soldier in the service, pro- posed to be discharged, the case of such soldier shall not be again brought forward for discharge, until after the expiration of one year, dating from the last decision.]—Art. 52. By order of the King, signified to the Secretary at War, July 30, 1830.—H. H. 53. If the case of the soldier be clearly such as not to entitle him to any pension, and that there is no necessity for his per- sonal appearance before the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, the proceedings of the Regimental Board, and the discharge stating the grounds of the rejection of his service, shall never- theless be sent to Chelsea: if the Commissioners shall con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21954203_0234.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
