Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Pensions – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 December 1947.
Mr Robin Turton
, Thirsk and Malton
12:00,
9 December 1947
asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has now reconsidered the claim of Mr. E. Burgess, of Daggett House, Pickhill, to a disability pension in consequence of gunshot wounds received in the 1914–18 war, in the light of the report of a well-known Harrogate surgeon that his present incapacity is entirely due to his war wounds and is as great as if his leg had been amputated through the thigh.
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