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Respected Sir,
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I most respectfully and humbly beg to lay before honour the following, for favour of your favourable consideration and placing before H. E. the Governor for H. E.'s decision:-
At the time when late Hongkong Regiment disbanded I had 15 years and 5 months service, and Sir Matthew Nathan then Governor of Hongkong proclaimed "that though this Regiment is being disbanded, but if any man or N.0.0.s of the Regiment would like to serve in any Regiment or in any Civil Department, his present service will be counted towards his pension". Though I had 15 years and five months service still I was neither granted any pension nor I had any reward. So having these facts in view I came to Hongkong and joined the Police Force where I have done 7 years and 10 months service, beside the Hongkong Regiment Service or total service 23 years and 3 months. So under these circumstances I most respectfully to request that my case may kindly be kept put before H. E. for favourable consideration that my service which I had done in Hongkong Regiment under Imperial Government may kindly be counted towards pension: for this act of kindness I shall ever pray and shall be most grateful for your long life and prosperity.
Further I respectfully to bring to your kind een- -gideration notice that in the case if any other man put the
similar case, they have no claim, save 6 men who have served in the Hongkong Regiment.
Your etc..
(Sd.) No. 725, Ismail Khan, Folice Cons.
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