Director
off
Education.
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was
My husband had spent fourteen, fears in Dong Bong and his health
much affected by the postponement of his leave rendering him unfit to stand the heat of August. My pension from the Volunteer Corps Fund is five shillings draw a pension of £91 a year from the Widows' and Cephaws Fund. I have two children a son Fourteen fears of age and a daughter Preteen Years:
I am ondeavouring to give them the education to get them into the Civil Service, but as
a week. and in addition to this I
of age.
Lee
no
other Lource.
income
my pension is quite inadiquate
of I was told that the Goverment
1
Jore will
and I have
coas
going to give me Something besides the actual
pension as M2 Curwen died under oxceptional circumstances
-Fur pay.
and Civil
and also he was entitled to a year's leave on
I can furnish letters from Military Authorities testifying to the great esteem in which husband was held. I am alas told from
husband is supposed to be
my
Hong Kong that
my
the first Britisher to lay down his life for his Country in this most terrible loar.
am
Yours. Faithfully
Curwen