London Gazette - War Gratuities

London Gazette - War Gratuities - Officers

War Gratuities

1920 03 26
War Gratuities - Officers, Ratings, RN & RM, Regular, HO and Reserve Personnel
At the Court at Buckingham Palace the day of March, 1920.

Present, The Kings' Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 13th March, 1920, in the words following, viz.:-

Whereas by Section 3 of the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865, it is enacted, inter alia, that all pay, pensions, and other allowances in the nature thereof, payable in respect of services in Your Majesty's Naval or Marine Force to a person. being or having been an Officer, Seaman, or Marine therein, shall be paid in such manner and subject to such restrictions, conditions, and provisions as are from time to time directed by Order in Council:

And whereas by Section 2 of the Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve Act, 1863, it is enacted, inter alia, that the Admiralty may enrol Officers of the Reserve to the Royal Navy under, and subject to such Rules, Orders, and Regulations as the Admiralty may, with the consent of Your Majesty in Council, from time to time establish:

And whereas by the Naval Forces Act, 1903, it is enacted that the Admiralty shall have power to raise and maintain a Force to .be called the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and that any volunteer enrolled under this Act, when serving for training afloat, or called out for actual service, shall be deemed to be serving in Your Majesty's. Naval or Marine Force within the meaning of the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865:

And whereas we are of opinion that Officers and Men of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Naval Reserve, and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who served during the present War should be granted gratuities in respect of such service:

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased, by Your Order in Council, to sanction the payment of gratuities to these officers and men as set forth in the enclosed Schedules.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified Their concurrence in .these proposals.

Schedule I.

War Gratuities to Temporary and Reserve Officers and to Officers on the Retired and Emergency Lists.

Gratuities on the following scales to be granted to temporary Officers, Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Officers of the Retired and Emergency Lists, who have served during the war.

All Officers (including temporary Officers) of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and other Officers granted temporary Commissions and receiving Naval rates of pay, except as provided in (c) and paragraphs 2 and 4 below:

Entered or promoted from ratings, etc., on or before 18th February, 1919.

For the first year's service or part of a year's service ... 124 days' pay
For each subsequent year or part of a year's service ... 62 days' pay

Entered or promoted from ratings, etc., after 18th February, 1919 ... 31 days' pay

These rates to apply also to Officers of the Royal Naval Division, to Midshipmen Royal Naval Reserve, and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Temporary Warrant Officers Royal Navy (entered direct or promoted from temporary ratings), and Warrant Officers, Royal Naval Reserve, and also to Officers entered under Admiralty Agreement T. 124 or variants thereof, subject to the conditions given in paragraph 13.

All Officers on the Retired or Emergency Lists employed during the war:-

Four every year's service or part of a year's service .. 31 days' pay

Temporary Surgeon Lieutenants, Royal Navy and Royal Navel Volunteer Reserve, to receive �60 for each year's service or part of a year subject, in the case of Temporary Surgeon Lieutenants, Royal Navy, to a minimum of two months' pay as provided for in the existing regulations. Prior service as Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. which would otherwise count for the War Gratuity under (a) above, to count towards this gratuity.

Temporary Surgeon Lieutenants (D), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, to receive �50 for each year's service or part of a year. The period to count as service to be decided by they Admiralty with the concurrence of the Treasury.

Temporary Medical Officers above the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant and all Medical Officers who belonged to the permanent Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on or before the 11th November, 1918, to receive gratuities at the ordinary rates.

The following Temporary Warrant Officers, Royal Navy, and Temporary Commissioned Officers to be eligible only for gratuities on the Permanent Officers' scale given in Schedule II.

Promoted Long Service Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers, R.N.
Promoted Pensioner Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers, R.N.

Promoted Long Service Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers, R.N.
Promoted Long Service Non-Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers, R.M.
Promoted Pensioner Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers, R.N.
Promoted Pensioner Non-Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers, R.M.
Promoted Pensioner Warrant Officers, R.N.

For the purposes of assessing the gratuities, Army rates of pay covered by Admiralty Orders in Council to be regarded as Naval rates.
The gratuities not to be paid to the following classes of Officers:-

Officers whose services have been terminated for unsatisfactory conduct or for inefficiency or other causes, in circumstances which, in the opinion of the Admiralty, disqualify them for the gratuity.
Officers re-employed before the war in receipt of civil salary and who have continued in their peace employment during the war.
Officers granted commissions pro forma.
Officers serving under special contracts which provide for the issue of a gratuity. In such cases, however, an Officer to be allowed to take the gratuity under this Order instead, if more advantageous.
Officers not in receipt of Naval rates of pay. But Officers serving at the Admiralty (except those referred to at (c) above), Transport Officers, Shipping Intelligence Officers, Convoy Officers, Salvage Officers, D.A.M,S. Officers, General Staff Officers, and R.N.D. Officers, on consolidated pay, not being civil salary, to be regarded for this purpose as being in receipt of Naval rates of pay and their gratuities to be based on the rate of full pay and not on the consolidated rate.
Officers other than Surgeon Sub-Lieutenants R.N.V.R. (vide paragraph (g)) who at their own request either

resigned their commissions or
reverted to unemployment before the 1st June, 1918.

Any, however, who resigned their commissions or reverted to unemployment on or subsequent to that date, and who had completed two years' service as Officers to be eligible. Officers who relinquished their commissions for reasons of ill-health before the 11th November; 1918, also to be eligible, although the disability which resulted, in cessation of service was not contracted in and caused by the Naval Service, provided that not less than 6 months' service as an Officer has been rendered.

The stipulation as to the qualifying period of service not to apply in the case of Officers, including Surgeon Sub-Lieutenants R.N.V.R., who resigned, reverted to unemployment, or were invalided on or subsequent to the 11th November, 1918.

Officers invalided for reasons within their own control to be ineligible for the gratuity irrespective of the length of service rendered.

Surgeon Sub-Lieutenants, R.N.V.R., who were allowed to resign to resume their medical studies to be ineligible only when less than 6 months' service as an Officer has been rendered.
Officers transferred to the permanent Naval Service.

All Naval Service on full pay during the war (except as hereafter stated) up to and including the 1st August, 1919, to count for the assessment of these gratuities:
1. The gratuities to be issuable
2. Officers to be granted the benefit of any acting rank held by them at any period during their service subject to the following conditions :-
Officers graded as Transport Officers, Shipping Intelligence Officers, Port Convoy Officers, D.A.M.S. Officers, and General Staff Officers, to be paid on the rate of full pay, exclusive of allowances of their equivalent ranks. The period of service forming the basis of gratuity to be confined to full pay service as an Officer or service on consolidated rates of pay falling under paragraph 4 (e). (Service as a rating not to qualify for Officer's gratuity. In the case of temporary Lieutenants and Lieutenant-Commanders, R.N.R., and R.N.V.R., employed as Second Grade Transport and D.A.M.S. Officers, and Third Grade Shipping Intelligence and Port Convoy Officers, the gratuity to be based on the rate of Full Pay (exclusive of all allowances) they would receive as temporary Lieutenant-Commanders, R.N.R. or R.N.V.R.
An Officer eligible for a gratuity under this order who has previously during the war served as a rating to receive a separate gratuity for time served as a rating and a gratuity under this Order for time served as an Officer.
In the case of deceased Officers, the gratuity to be payable to the estate.
In the case of Officers with previous gratuity-bearing service in another Branch of the Forces, such previous service to be regarded as Naval Service for purposes of these gratuities. Similarly in the case of Officers with subsequent gratuity-bearing service in another Branch of the Forces, the Naval Service to be regarded, for War gratuity purposes as service under the last employing Department.
Any Officer who may have received a gratuity under these regulations on relinquishment of a Commission or appointment in the R.N.R., or R.N.V.R., or a Temporary Commission in the R.N., or R.M., or on demobilisation during the emergency, and who has been, or may be, appointed to a Permanent Commission in the Royal Navy or Royal Marines within six months of such relinquishment or demobilisation shall, as a condition of the grant of a Permanent Commission, be held liable at the discretion of the Admiralty to refund the difference between the gratuity paid and that payable under Schedule II for such service.
These gratuities to be exempt from Income Tax.
Officers who have served during the war under Admiralty Agreement T. 124 or variants thereof to be eligible for gratuities on the scales given in paragraph 1, Clause (a).

Payment of these gratuities to be subject to the same general conditions as those for General Service Officers.

The gratuities to be based entirely on the rank held at the date of demobilisation, and to be payable at the same rates as for temporary General Service Deck Officers, R.N.R., of the same or relative rank. Mates and Engineers not holding Commissioned rank to be regarded as Sub-Lieutenants for the purposes of gratuity. Chief Stewards (T. 124 or T. 124Z) in receipt of the maximum rate of pay for Stewards to be regarded as Warrant Officers, R.N. (non-mechanical branch). W/T Operators, M.M.R., to be paid on the scale applicable to Warrant Telegraphists, R.N.R. (General Service), and Midshipmen, M.M.R., to be paid on the scale applicable to Midshipmen R.N.R.

The Gratuities of. Officers with �Mixed� service i.e., with part General Service and part T. 124 or variant service, to be assessed on the total period, irrespective of whether it is continuous or not at the rate of pay applicable to the last day of service.

In any matter not affecting the scales herein laid down the Admiralty to be the sole administrators and interpreters of the rules for the assessment of the War Gratuities and of the eligibility of any Officer or class of Officers, for the same, and to make such further regulations for the administration thereof as they may from time to time determine, with the concurrence of Your Lords Commissioners of the Treasury where necessary.

Schedule II.

War Gratuities to Permanent Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

War Gratuities to be granted to permanent Officers an the active lists of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines (excluding the R.N.R., and R.N.V.R.) for service during the war on the following scales:-

Relative Rank of Officer	For the first year's service (or for part of a year if a year has not been served).	Increment for each additional month after a year's service.
Relative Rank of Officer		Officers who have served at sea or overseas.	Officers have not served or at overseas or overseas.
	�	�	�	s.
Admiral of the Fleet	720	3	1	10
Admiral	640
Vice-Admiral	370
Rear-Admiral	200
Commodores, 1st and 2nd Class	140	2	1	0
Captain over 3 years' seniority	100	2	1	0
Commander and Captain under 3 years' seniority	75	1	0	10
Lieutenant-Commander	60
Lieutenant	45
Sub-Lieutenant	40
Commissioned Warrant Officer	35
Warrant Officer	30
Midshipman	20
Paymaster Cadet	15

Officers who have served at sea or overseas for any period during the war to receive the higher rates of increment for the whole period of their war service after the first year, irrespective of any shore service which may be included therein.
The War Gratuities of Chaplains to be assessed on the following scale:

Rank	Same rate as for
Chaplain of the Fleet	Rear-Admiral.
Chaplain of 20 years' seniority	Captain over 3 years' seniority
Chaplain of 15 years' seniority	Commander
Chaplain of 8 and under 15 years' Seniority	Lieut.-Commander
Chaplain under 8 years seniority	Lieutenant.

Secretaries to Commanders-in-Chief of over 5 years' standing to receive War Gratuity of their equivalent rank, i.e., that of a Captain of under 3 years' seniority, and not the gratuity of a Paymaster Captain unless they have the substantive rank of Paymaster Captain
In assessing the above Gratuities Officers to be granted the benefit of any acting rank held by them at any period during their service subject to the following conditions.

That such acting rank has been held during the present war for an aggregate period of not less than 182 days and has not been relinquished owing to misconduct or causes within the Officer's own control, or
That such acting rank or the pay thereof has been relinquished owing to a wound received in and by Naval service, or
That the Officer became non-effective owing to a disability caused or aggravated, in the first instance, by Naval service while holding such acting rank.

In assessing the 182 .days under (a), any period less than 182 days in a higher rank to be counted towards the 182 days' qualifying period in the next or any lower rank.

Unpaid acting rank not to entitle an Officer to a higher rate of Gratuity.

All Naval Service on full pay during the war (except as stated hereafter) up to and including the 1st August, 1919, to count for the assessment of these Gratuities.
The Gratuity to be based on the relative rank (acting or confirmed) held by the Officer on the 11th November, 1918, but any Officer advanced in rank after that date and before the conclusion of his war service counting for gratuity to receive the gratuity on the high rank, provided that if the advancement is to acting rank such rank is still held on the last day of the qualifying period.

In the case of Transport, Shipping Intelligence Convoy, Salvage and D.A.M.S. Officers and General Staff Officers and Secretaries the gratuity to be calculated at their equivalent ranks. The gratuity to Officers of the R.M. to be based on their relative rank when ashore and not their relative rank when embarked.

Temporary Officers transferred to the Royal Navy or Royal Marines during they war to receive a gratuity under this Schedule, based on the whole period of their War Service instead of the gratuities laid down for temporary officers.
Similarly retired Officers or Officers on the emergency list reinstated on the active list during the war to receive the gratuity under this Schedule instead of the gratuity laid down for Officers on the Retired or Emergency Lists.
Ratings promoted to permanent Warrant or permanent Commissioned rank during the war to receive an Officer's gratuity under this Schedule in addition to they gratuity earned by their service as ratings, but no Officer who has received a gratuity in respect of service as a rating to receive a larger total gratuity as officer and man than the gratuity he would have received if his whole service had been that of an Officer.
Officer who have been compulsorily retired during the war and have subsequently served on the Retired List to have the option of receiving either the gratuity as for an Officer on the Active List for the whole period of service, or a gratuity for the period of retired Service based on that applicable to Retired Officers, viz.:- 31 days' pay for each year or part of a year of retired service, if more advantageous. The latter, however, to be calculated on the period of retired service only.
In the case of deceased Officers, the gratuity to be payable to the estate.
Gratuities not to be payable to :-

Officers who have left the Active List on account of misconduct or for other reasons which in the opinion of the Admiralty disqualify them for the gratuity, or have been invalided for causes within their own control.
Officers who have retired voluntarily or resigned their commissions during the war and have less than two years' service counting towards gratuity. Officers who have retired with Admiralty approval on account of there being no further employment for them on the Active List may, if otherwise qualified, be granted the gratuity at Admiralty discretion:, although they have not completed two years' service counting towards gratuity, but if in such cases substantive service has not been rendered in the rank held on retirement the gratuity given to be that of the rank below.
Officers who are eligible for war gratuity granted by a Dominion Government

Officers who have entered the permanent service, e.g., Naval Cadets rated Midshipmen, Officers granted permanent Commissions in the Royal Marines, &c., between the 12th November, 1918, and the 10th February, 1919 inclusive, to be eligible for the gratuity. Officers entered after the latter date not to receive the gratuity. Ratings, however, promoted to Officer's rank after the 11th November, 1918, to be entitled to count their subsequent service towards Officers' gratuity, under the provisions laid down in paragraphs 7 and 10.
War Gratuities to be exempt from Income Tax.
In any matter not affecting the rates herein laid down the Admiralty to be the sole arbitrators and interpreters of the rules for the assessment of the War Gratuity, including the eligibility of any Officer or class of Officers to participate.

Schedule III

Gratuities to Seamen and Marines.

Gratuities on the following scales to be granted to Chief Petty officers, Petty Officers, Men and Boys of the Royal Navy, and Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Men and Boys of the Royal Marines, whether they belong to the permanent service or reserve or were entered for "Hostilities only."

Royal Navy

	For the first year's service or part of a year if a year has not been served. *			Increment for each additional calendar month or final portion of a calendar month after a year's service, subject to a maximum of 48 such monthly increments.
	�			s.
Boys	2	) ) ) ) ) ) )	10	To those who have served at sea or overseas for any period during their qualifying war service.
Ordinary Seamen or Able Seamen	5
Leading .Rates .	6
Petty Officers .	8		5	To those who have not served at sea or overseas.
Chief Petty Officers .	12		5	To those who have not served at sea or overseas.

Note.-No Gratuity to be paid to ratings who have rendered only six months' or less than six months' service within the prescribed war period without any service at sea or overseas.

Royal Marines

The scale for Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Men and Boys of the Royal Marines to be as laid down for equivalent ranks in the Army and to be inclusive of marching money now payable.

Native Ratings.

Men of colour entered under Continuous Service Engagements at Ordinary Naval rates of pay to be eligible for Gratuities assessed accordance with Scale (A).

Men of colour entered under Naval Non-Continuous Service Engagements and borne on Ships books on the 1st December, 1919, to be paid the full rates shown in Scale (A) if natives of the West Indies or Cape Colony but all other such native ratings including Chinese so serving and then borne to be paid half the rates shown in Scale (A).

The War Gratuity in the case of Royal Naval Reservists to be inclusive of the Discharge Gratuity of 30 days' pay where payable under the Royal Naval Reserve Regulations.
The Gratuity not to be payable to or in respect of

Conscientious Objectors;
Ratings discharged for misconduct, or other causes within their own control in the nature of misconduct;
Ratings (other than guns' crews of Defensively Armed Merchant Ships and certain ratings lent to Contractors) paid at Mercantile or civilian rates except that any such men as were paid Naval rates during a period of their service to be eligible for the Gratuity, calculated on such period;
Men re-employed before the war at civilian rates of pay who continued on their peace employment during the war under the same conditions ;
Colonial ratings paid from Colonial Funds, and Royal Naval ratings lent to Colonial Navies for the period during which they were in receipt of Colonial rates of pay;
Ratings entered, under special agreement on Form T. 124 or any of its variants, T. 299 or variants, or under Yardcraft or Dockyard agreements;
Ratings who entered the Royal Navy or Royal Marines after the 11th November, 1918, and had no qualifying was service prior to that date;
Ratings who. rendered only part-time service in the Royal Naval Anti-Aircraft Corps and had no qualifying war service in any other branch of H.M. ,Forces;
Employees of the General Post Office in receipt of full civil pay;
Native ratings (men of colour) who were not serving on the 1st December, 1919, unless they were entered for Continuous Service at ordinary Naval rates of pay.

The Gratuity to be payable in addition to any pension or gratuity granted in respect of disability.
War service qualifying for Gratuity to be service actually rendered within the period 2nd August, 1914, and the 1st August, 1919 (both dates inclusive) subject to the other conditions specified herein. Service in the Army or Royal Air Force prior to joining the Royal Navy or Royal Marines to be counted provided it was not denied on entry, and would qualify for War Gratuity under the appropriates regulations and subject to the deduction from the Gross amount of War Gratuity assessed on the combined service of any War Gratuity (or Pay Warrant Gratuity recoverable from War Gratuity) already issued.
In assessing they period of qualifying war service rendered all time prior to or in, desertion to be ignored and the following periods not to be counted:

The whole of any period of imprisonment or detention of 29 days or over.
Time waiting trial after recovery from desertion and prior to resumption of duty and pay.
Time during which ratings (other than guns of Defensively Armed Merchant Ships. and certain ratings lent to Contractors) have been paid at Mercantile or civil rates.
Any period of demobilised service rendered in the Reserve.
Service in the Coast Guard Pensioner Force.
Time during which ratings were lent to Colonial Naval Forces and received Colonial rates of Pay.

The Gratuity to be assessed on the basis of the substantive or paid acting rating (whichever rating is higher) actually held either on the 1st August, 1919, or on the date of discharge or demobilisation. if earlier, or on the 11th November, 1918, if the man was actually serving on that date, provided the higher rating was not relinquished on account of misconduct, inefficiency of at the man's own request. Men in receipt of �difference of pay' to be eligible only for the amount appropriate to their proper rating and not for the amount due to men holding the higher rating in which they are doing duty.
The Gratuity for service as a rating in the case of man promoted to Warrant or Commissioned rank to be issuable independently of the Gratuity for service as an Officer, except that where any part of the latter service was rendered at sea or overseas, the Gratuity for service as a rating to be calculated at the higher rate of monthly increment.
The Gratuities to be payable to men already discharged or demobilised (except men of colour discharged or demobilised prior to 1st December, 1919) or to the personal legal representatives of such ratings as have died either while serving or after discharge and, before receiving payment.
The Gratuities to be exempt from Income Tax.
In any matter not affecting the rates herein laid down the Admiralty to be the sole arbitrators and interpreters of the rules for the assessment of the War Gratuity, including the eligibility for they award of any individual rating or class of rating.

His Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy. Council, to approve of what is therein proposed.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
Almeric FitzRoy.

1920 10 19
And whereas by Your Majesty's Order in Council dated the 25th day of March, 1920, sanction was given for the payment of War Gratuities to Officers of Your Majesty's Naval and Mariner Forces who were employed during the late War and paid at Naval rates of pay:

And whereas we are of opinion that certain Officers of Your Majesty's Naval and Marine Forces who were employed during the late War but were not paid at Naval rates of pay are also deserving of the award of a gratuity on the termination of their services:

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased, by Your Order in Council, to sanction the payment at our discretion of gratuities to them Officers as set forth in the attached Schedule:

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in this proposal.

Schedule.

The Gratuity to be at the rate of 31 days' pay for each complete year of service.
The conditions governing the award to be the same as those which apply to the ordinary War Gratuity.
No Service rendered subsequent to the 1st August, 1919, and no Service for which pay has not been issued direct frown Naval Funds, to count for the Gratuity.
The rate of pay on which the Gratuity would be assessed to be not the full pay of the rank held but the pay actually drawn on the 1st August, 1919 (or on the last day of services if previous to that date), or on the 11th November, 1918, if more advantageous, and to be exclusive of the Retired Pay element, if any, merged in such rate of pay.
The gratuity to have retrospective effect to the 2nd August, 1914.
The scheme to apply only to those to whom commissions have been granted. Thus in no, circumstances is a gratuity to be paid for any period of service as a civilian or for service by an Officer in a civilian post or capacity. It is likewise not .to be issuable to persons who have been continued in their pre-war employment, even though they have been granted Commissions on the institution to which they belong being taken over for Admiralty purposes.
Officers who are eligible for this gratuity to be demobilized as and when they can be released, on the same lines as other Officers without a month's notice or any pay in lieu thereof being given. In the case of Officers whose services have already been terminated and who have received pay in lieu of notice, the amount of such pay in lieu of notice to be deducted from the gratuity. No deduction to be made in the case of Officers who did duty up to the expiration of the notice given to them.
Any gratuity payable to an Officer under this Authority to be assessed on his service qualifying therefor irrespective of any gratuity for which he may be eligible under Order in Council 25th March, 1920, in respect of some other portion of his war service.
In any matter not affecting the scale herein laid down, the Admiralty to be the sole .administrators and interpreters of the rules for they assessment of this Gratuity, and of the eligibility of any Officer or class of Officers for the same.

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