A further hundred scholarship: of £20 yearly, tenable for three years, would be distributed annually, and thus cumulatively, among subalterns on their first commission who needed this assistance.
Retired pay in future would be based on a combination of age, and length of total service up to the rank of colonel inclusive, and thereafter would be at fixed rates for each rank.
This was in substitution for the present system of a combination of rank and service, which in each individual case had made retired pay dependent to a great degree upon hazard.
These measures, Mr. Here-Belisha went on to explain, applied to all combatant corps of the Army, and would come into effect on August 1 No Hardships Caused The reforms would be so brought into operation that no officer on full pay would suffer compulsory retire-
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