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Chelsea Pensioner's Pay

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jonwarrn
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Re: Chelsea Pensioner's Pay

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VALLMO9 wrote: 31 Oct 2020, 17:28 As regards his own pension payments, rate per day, and period of payments, they might be listed in the Royal Hospital Chelsea: Returns of Payment of Army and Other Pensions 1842-1883 (WO 22) series at TNA.

Unfortunately, these records have not been digitised. So they need to be viewed at TNA at Kew.
There's one WO 22 record for a James Hunt, 7th Foot, indexed on findmypast
And three records or so for a Jas/James Hunt, 7th Foot in WO 23

I don't know why TNA says WO 23 records have not been digitised.
1-9 Foot. The dates of service are 1820-1854
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov. ... /r/C169154

WO 23 registers I have saved previously from fmp have given the "Rate" in first column. In fact their format and appearance has been similar to the WO 120 record on ancestry.
If any of the entries are for the right James, could they confirm his rate of pay?
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