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John Cappers Pensions
In his obituary, it is mentioned that he had served under Goverment for 45 years - in the Army, War Department and Customs and that he was in receipt of two pensions and ... the Queens annuity of £10 during life.
His Service in the Army was exactly half the 45 years, (see Pensioner Certificate), and judging by the accrued amounts of pension in the accounts of his estate the civil and army pensions - not clear here whether the army pension is with or without the annuity - were about the same amount.
The amounts are as follows:
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Per Diem
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On annual basis
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Army Pension
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£ 0 - 1 - 10 1/2
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£34 - 4 - 4
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Annuity
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£10 - 0 - 0
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Civil Pension (estimated*)
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Between £34 - 10 - 10
and £44 - 12 - 12
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Total
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Between £79 and £89
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The two surviving documents are his Pensioner Certificate as a Chelsea Out-Pensioner and one of his Certificates of Identity. The latter had to be shown and stamped by the Post Office - it had spaces for four years of quarterly stamps - when presenting his money order for payment.
In addition the rules for calculation of the army pension are shown in the army paybook:
The rules are complicated and also the image of the first page of rules is not very good, so I leave the task of cross-checking the pension amount to a later generation.
* The Civil Pension has been estimated using the accrued amounts of pension as multiplication factor, (£11 - 1 - 2 for Army Pension and £11 - 3 - 3 for Civil Pension), in the two cases Army Pension included Annuity and Army Pension without Annuity.(I had to calculate Pounds Shillings and Pence at school - Im glad we now have decimal currency!)
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