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wax, he forfeited about the sum for which I now plead restor- ation.
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3. But besides this my husband incurred an illness in Hongkong in 1911 duodenal ulcer (said to have been due to h tropical service) which made him a sufferer for many years and was the immediate cause of his death in September 1936, yet he never received an invalid pension or any form of com- pensation whatsoever. In fact the pension which was granted of about £400 a year by the Hongkong Government, although generous in consideration that it applied to his service i that colory only up to the time of his retirement from the Colonial Service in 1920, was quite inadequate for the living expenses of a sick man subject to constant dangerous and expensive illnesses, even without considering the maintain- ance of his family, and above all the education of his children.
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At the same time it should be noted that although he served about 25 years with the Royal Navy (counting the four years of the war and a year on leave during Naval courses); was twice promoted after retirement and joining the Emergency List; served throughout the war in France and Italy with the responsibilities (but not the pay!) of at least a Rear Admiral; and was decorated by Italy and the Allies as well as by his own Government et he never received a penny pension for his naval service. But his widow and children are proud to remember (even if the Navy has forgotten or never knew) that he conferred untold benefits on all serving in the tropics by his original invention of the electric fan again without financial reward.
5. I hesitate to mention the next point but feel that in all fairness it should not be omitted. Owing to my husband's ill-health and frequent serious illnesses from duodenal ulcer, the smallness of his pension and very straightened income on his retirement, I gave up bit by bit practically all the capital behind my own private income and the whole of five separate legacies in order to maintain a home for him and for the proper education of our family, spending many times over the sum for which I now ask. This money was ungrudgingly given and would not now be mentioned but for the fact that its loss has deprived my five children of that financial help which they would otherwise expect to receive at my death and which must inevitably handicap them in their subsequent careers. Especially will this be true in the case of my