[Milsurplus] [Fwd: [vmars] Soldiers pensions = Off topic but please help!]

[J. Forster]

For members in the UK, this seems a pretty reasonable request.

Best,

-John

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Subject: [vmars] Soldiers pensions = Off topic but please help!
From:    "Michael Buckley" <M1CCF at talktalk.net>
Date:    Mon, November 15, 2010 12:38 am
To:      vmars-member at yahoogroups.com
         vmars at yahoogroups.com
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Please read the message below & sign the petition. I sometimes think the
more we progress the more we regress

Dear All

Sergeant Matthew Telford of the Grenadier Guards was promoted to that
rank in June 2009.

In November of that same year, Sergeant Telford was one of 5 British
soldiers killed when a rogue Afghan policeman opened fire on them.

His wife and family will only receive a Corporal's pension since he only
held his rank of Sergeant for less than a year.

However, he was killed on operations by the enemy whilst wearing three
stripes of a Sergeant on active service.

Please sign the petition below to support a change in the rules that
deny a hero's widow the pension she deserves.

http://soldiers-pensions.co.uk/?q=petition


Please forward onto any sympathetic contacts that you may have in your
address book.

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/Denise Edgar/

National Trustee
The Royal British Legion
Home 01904 670677
Mobile 07982 245348
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