Catalogue description Royal Hospital Chelsea: Returns of Payment of Army and Other Pensions

Periodical returns of pensions paid or payable by the Royal Hospital Chelsea, bound up in volumes and arranged under the various districts in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, etc, and in India, the Colonies and certain foreign stations. They include returns of out-pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, of those belonging to the East India Company, and of mercantile marine pensioners; also annual mortality returns showing the number of deaths at different ages.

In addition to the statistical information which these returns supply they are useful for tracing changes of residence and dates of death of individual pensioners.

Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1682-