'Soldiers' Widows', the Broad Arrow, Vol. 22, 5 April 1879, PP. 448–9.
Year: 2020

The appeals which have been made on behalf of the widows and orphans of the soldiers who fell at the gallant defence of Rorke’s Drift will, we trust, direct the attention of the country to the fact that no regulations exist which make any grant whatever to the families of those of the non-commissioned ranks of the Army killed in action, notwithstanding that officers are admittedly unable to live on their pay, much less to support a wife and children upon it. The pension rules for the commissione