CO129-533-5 Lt. Col. R.F. Drury- C.B.E.- pension 3-2-1931 - 14-12-1931 — Page 17

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C/o. Westminster Bank, Ltd.,

Chancery Lane Branch,

Southampton Buildings,

LONDON. W.C.2.

14th August 1931.

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RECEIVED

REFERENCE 82778/31.

15 AUG 1931 COL. OFFICE

Sir,

With reference to the assessment of my pension

for Hong Kong Service in the P.W.D., I note that no provision

has been made for my twelve years service in "an unhealthy

climate".

With reference to this matter, I would state the

following facts for consideration:-

1.

Un account of this twelve years service at the

commencement of my career, I was driven, owing to fever

and dysentery contracted on out-of-door P.W.D. duties

in a tropical climate, to effect at all costs a transfer

to the Home Service, with the result that

2. I was obliged to relinquish the profession in

which I had been trained at considerable expense

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and

to lose the valuable experience I had gained as a Civil

Engineer in a rapidly developing colony and to take (with

a view to maintaining continuous Imperial Service) an

appointment in the "Surveyor Class" in the Lord Chancellor's

Sub. Department for the Registration of Land. Under this

class of work, my scope of advancement has naturally

much curtailed and has affected the whole of my career.

3. Upon application for transfer in 1900, I was

offered promotion by the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain to

the post of Executive Engineer in Hong Kong, which, for

been

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