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request that my case may kindly be put before His Excellency
for favourable consideration that my service which I had done
in Hong Kong 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 beg respectfully to bring to your kind
notice that in the case of any other man put the similar
case, they have no claim, save 6 men who have served in the
Hong Kong Regiment.
Your most obedient and humble Servant,
From
(Sd.) Ismail Khan,
No.725, Police Constable.
Dated Simla, the 13th May 1903.
To
Colonel M.H.S.Grover,
Officiating Deputy Secretary to the Government of
India, Military Department.
The Adjutant-General in India.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter No.1260-3, dated the 9th May 1903, recommending that
certain non-commissioned officers and men who took their
discharge from the Hong Kong Regiment on the disbandment of
that corps may be allowed to re-enlist in the 5th Bengal
Infantry now being reconstructed, on the following terms :-
(a)