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whole: the title is positioned across the top in red, with the text arranged over the remainder in red and blue. All are
set against a plain white background and held within a narrow blue border.
image: text only.
text: G.R. [Royal Charter]
SOLDIERS' SEPARATION ALLOWANCES
INCREASED RATES from MARCH 1, 1915
Increased Separation Allowances for the War are now given to the wives and children of married soldiers and to the dependants of unmarried
men and widowers.
WIVES AND CHILDREN OF MARRIED MEN.
The New Weekly Rates are as follows:
[Rates follow for a Wife, a Wife and child and Wife and two children, increasing according to the rank of the soldier.]
These rates include the usual allotment of 3s. 6d. a week for privates and corporals, and 5s. 10d. for other ranks.
Adopted children are admitted. The ordinary limit of age for children is now 16, and the allowance is continued up to 21 in certain cases
(for higher education, apprenticeship on a normal wage, or physical or mental infirmity). Soldiers marrying AFTER enlistment are now
eligible.
An extra 3s. 6d. a week is paid in the case of soldiers living in the London postal area at the time of enlistment if the families continue
to live there.
MOTHERLESS CHILDREN.
5s. a week clear for each child.
OTHER DEPENDANTS OF UNMARRIED SOLDIERS AND WIDOWERS.
If a soldier who is unmarried or a widower (or one whose wife is not drawing separation allowance because she was living apart from him
before the war) had any person or persons (whether related or not), including children, actually dependent upon him before he enlisted, the
Government will pay that dependant a weekly sum provided the soldier contributes a share (one third or less) of the amount. The intention
is to allow to the dependant, within certain limits (see below), the same amount weekly that the soldier paid him or her before enlistment,
less any portion that went to pay for his own keep.
As an example, if the soldier had paid 17s. 6d. a week in peace to his mother, and 7s. 6d. of this was needed for his own keep, the
allowance admissible will be the remaining 10s. Towards this the soldier will contribute 5d. a day from his pay.
The amount the Government will pay to any one dependant of a soldier will not exceed the amount of separation allowance for a wife (see
table above), but that limit will be raised if more persons than one were dependent on the same soldier.
NOTE.- As it is impossible to explain all the classes of cases on a poster, intending recruits can obtain fuller information from the two
pamphlets for married and unmarried men, revised to 1st March, 1915, which they can get at any Post Office.
Forms of Application for Separation Allowance can be filled in at the Recruiting Office.
PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON.
Poster No. 72.
H, W and V. Ld. 30M W.13250 3/15.
10M. W.14150 3/15
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No.72.
Wt. W. 13250.
W.14150.
A later poster (Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No.114) uses the same design (see PST 5160). | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Recruitment Campaign 1914-1916 proclamations children UK postal services British Home Front 1914-1918 emblems women / womens work British Army 1914-1918 Home Front PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE recruiting First World War WW1 British Home Front | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd, London | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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