WIDOW OF WATERLOO
PENSIONER IN BRITAIN’S NEW SCHEME Reed. 9.50. a.m. LONDON, Wed. The widow of a soldier who fought at Waterloo 115 years ago will be among those to obtain a pension under the new Widows' Pension Act, announced Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health, when speaking at Hackney. Her husband was a lad of IS when he was at Waterloo, and was over 60 when he married a young girl. Assuming the hero was • married when he was 65, the marriage must have taken place in 1562. If the wife was then IV, she is now So.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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99WIDOW OF WATERLOO Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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