Catalogue description Special category of Departmental and Warrant Officers

This record is held by British Library: Asian and African Studies

Details of IOR/L/AG/21/14
Reference: IOR/L/AG/21/14
Title: Special category of Departmental and Warrant Officers
Date: 1950-1956
Held by: British Library: Asian and African Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

Pensions awarded to permanent and temporary warrant officers of the India Unattached List (and their widows), who were granted temporary commissions during the 1939-1945 War, and whose services were no longer required consequent on the partition of India in 1947. In this context the term 'Unattached List' refers to those British Army NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers) who were seconded from their regiments to do duty with the Indian Army mainly in the following administrative departments: Royal Indian Army Service Corps, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, Military Engineer Services and Public Works Department, Indian Army Corps of Clerks, Remount Department, Military Farms Department. There were also a number of miscellaneous appointments on the Unattached list comprehended under the term 'India Miscellaneous List'.

 

In respect of their combined British and Indian service, they had qualified for a service pension, but the new Government of India was not willing to accept liability for a rate higher than that for Indian services only. The United Kingdom Government accepted liability for the difference between the two rates. This class of pensions was described as 'U.K.E.C.' (United Kingdom Emergency Commissions). From 1956, the pension accounts of those officers were included in the volumes of other military service pensions (Section 21/11). The accounts of their widows were included in the volumes of Royal Warrant Pensions (Section 21/35).

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