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New Zealand Tablet, 22 April 1915, Page 43

The i louse of Commons-derived a good deal of amusement the other day from the information that Private Sir Herbert Raphael, Bart., M.P., who had enlisted as a private in the Sportsmen Battalion, had nothing to complain of in the financial generosity of the War Office towards his wife. Lady Raphael’s allowance as a ' dependent ’ on an enlisted soldier was promptly forwarded, so that ,as one Parliamentary wit remarked, she was placed out of danger of immediate destitution. Sir Herbert Raphael, who is the son of one of the wealthiest Jewish bankers in London, is the heir of a man whose money was reckoned in millions. The War Office, however, is blind to this accident of birth, and forwards L a dy Raphael her 6d per diem just as if she were Mrs. Atkins.