The
Right Honourable
Mr Churchill.
Dear Sir,
A.Allison
Flat 4 Ramsgate Hall
Ramsgate Avenue
Bondi N.S.W
20th Octr 19419
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I have the Honour to request that you will be able to spare the time to see if you can help me
in the under mentioned subject.
On the 12th July i forwarded a letter to the Sec Boaerd of Trade with reference to a state Iment made by the Hon. Harold Wilson that the House
had agreed to grant a certain amount of compensation to those who lost all their goods and chattells in the Far East.
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I sent an application on the 12th July also on the 18th as i had not given my address in Hong Kong also on the 6th Septr explaing the desperate position we were in, and one to the Honourable Mr Attlee asking if he could waive the condition of having to come to England.
The position is this Sir, my wife is a permanent cripple with a fractured hip and practially bed ridden age 72 myself age 76 served in Africa like
your self 1099 Modder river & Relieg of Kimberley left in June 1900 for Relief Pekin with our 4.7 battery then served on 1914,18 and did a bit of night fighting in Hong kong and a P.0.W and finally sent to Australia, both ill, then sent to a camp at St Mary, s
I was employed in the bank locally for a few years but was not entiled to a pension they gave me a years salary which i used in buying clothes and furnished this flat out which i got on condition i took over the caretaker of 16 flats it nearly killed me with 95 stairs back and front three lawns a big boiler houes and incinerator at end of six months collapsed with heart trouble and had to leave since then trying to live on two punds a week between us and my Military pension of 2/9 per day. I am not allowed an old age pension here as i have not Xxx@
resided here 20years.
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