The Forever Young May issue came to Burlington's Senior Citizens facility on a Thursday recently containing my plea on behalf of the Equality for Veterans Association (efva.co.uk), looking to assist ex-UK servicemen and women who left the service before April 1975 and thus were not awarded pro-rata pensions according to length of service unless they had served the full qualifying periods of 16 years for commissioned officers or 22 years for other ranks.
Since then I have had four calls from ex-UK servicemen and women. I can anticipate more as the paper circulates. The tragic thing is, if you had not placed the letter in your paper, these servicemen and women would never have known...
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