Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SCALE OF WOUND PENSIONS FOR QUALIFIED PERSONS.

Scale of Pension

Specific Injury

Degree of disablement

Persons whose Army service is long service

Persons whose Army service is pre-1918 short service

Persons whose Army service is post-1918 short service

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

per cent.

per week

per week

per week

Loss of two or more limbs

100

10s.

15s.

20s.

Loss of both hands or of all fingers and thumbs

Total loss of sight

Wounds, injuries, or results of them, resulting in a disabled man being totally bedridden

Wounds of, or injuries to internal, thoracic or abdominal organs involving total permanent disablement

Total organic paralysis resulting from wounds or injuries to brain or spinal cord

Loss of an arm and one eye

90

9s.

13s. 6d.

18s.

Loss of a leg and one eye

Loss of a hand and a foot

Loss of one arm through shoulder

Loss of both feet

80

8s.

12s.

16s.

Amputation of leg at hip or below hip, with stump not exceeding five inches in length, measured from tip of great trochanter; of right arm below shoulder, with stump not exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion; or of left arm through shoulder

Amputation of leg below hip, with stump exceeding five inches in length, measured from tip of great trochanter, but not below middle thigh; of left arm below shoulder, with stump not exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion; or of right arm below shoulder, with stump, exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion, through elbow, or below elbow, with stump, not exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon

70

7s.

10s. 6d.

14s.

Amputation of leg below middle thigh, through knee, or below knee, with stump not exceeding four inches; of left arm below shoulder, with stump exceeding six inches, measured from tip of acromion, through elbow, or below elbow, with stump not exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon; or of right arm below elbow, with stump exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon

60

6s.

9s.

12s.

Amputation of leg below knee, with stump exceeding four inches, or of left arm below elbow, with stump exceeding five inches, measured from tip of olecranon

50

5s.

7s. 6d.

10s.

Loss of one eye, the result of G.S.W. or injury

40

4s.

6s.

8s.

Loss of thumb or of four fingers of right hand

Loss of thumb or of four fingers of left hand, or three fingers of right hand

30

3s.

4s. 6d.

6s.

Lisfranc operation, one foot

Loss of all toes, both feet

Loss of two fingers, either hand

20

2s.

3s.

4s.

Loss of all toes of one foot

20

Note.—In the case of left-handed men, certified to be such, the compensation in respect of the left arm, etc., will be same as for a right arm, hand, etc., and vice versa.