Pay (British Currency)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prisoners of War – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 November 1947.

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Photo of Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge , Bedford 12:00, 4 November 1947

asked the Secretary of State for War whether, until such time as there may be currency reform in Germany, he will arrange for prisoners of war to receive a larger proportion of their pay in English money than is now available to them, it being a case of hardship on repatriation for men to find the official rate of exchange into marks leaving them with virtually no worth while savings resulting from their work in this country.

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