U156/
B: Military Service Pensions, 1935-1973 (8 items)
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22 December 1935 TS. letter from Sean P. MacCarthaigh, Ex-Adjutant, ‘A’ Company, 1 st Battalion, Cork 1 st Brigade, Irish Volunteers, 8 Richmond Hill, Cork, to ‘A Chara’. States that Riobárd Langford was Captain of A Company until his arrest in May 1921, and Sean Crowley was 1 st Lieutenant and subsequently elected Captain in June 1921, ‘This information is ascertained from the Company Roll and Parade Books, which I possess’. 1p 25 June 1937 TS. letter from Secretary, ‘Office of the Referee’, Griffith Barracks, South Circular Road, Dublin, to Mr. A. O’Shea, 12 Morrison’s Island, Cork. Concerns Military Service Pensions Act 1934 application from Riobárd O’Longpuirt (Riobárd Langford), 21 South Terrace, Cork. Requests a certified list of officers in Cork active service units in July 1921 and rank of applicant in July 1922. With MS. note at end ‘R Lankford Capt. was ordered by Brigade OC to leave his area owing to intense search for him by British…’. 1p [1950’s] TS. recommendations to Executive, [Old IRA Association] Welfare Committee, entitled ‘Army Pensions Acts 1943 – 49, Special Allowance’. Refers to special allowance paid to ex-IRA men. Requests that the ‘iniquitous means test be entirely withdrawn and…the test as applied to applicants for Old Age Pensions be applied’. Gives several recommendations including an increase in the Allowance by 50% and free hospital treatment for all veterans. Requests the Minister of Defence to receive a deputation to discuss the subject. 2pp
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