RUSSIAN WIDOW’S PLEA FOR PENSION
SON KILLED IN WAR (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Asking for £ 450 as retrospective pension for the death of her son, whe was killed in action in France in August, 1918, Janne Lury, a Russian widow living in Auckland, has petitioned Parliament. The petition, which was presented by Mr. A. Harris to-day, states that Mrs. Lury, who had lived in New Zealand since 1910, did not claim a pension at the time of her son’s death because of want of knowledge of the English language, and she was not aware at the time that she was entitled to a pension. Her son went to war in 1914 at the age of 17, and fought in Gallipoli and France, rising to the rank of secondlieutenant. Since his death she has also lost her husband and has experienced hard times.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 137, 31 August 1927, Page 12
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144RUSSIAN WIDOW’S PLEA FOR PENSION Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 137, 31 August 1927, Page 12
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