War Bonus Book (and Insurance Payments)

Volume contains lists of staff arranged by year, department and then job. Information contained includes staff name, date of entering service, position, salary (ceases to be recorded from November 1918), rate of War Bonus, date of leaving service, monthly amount paid and total. There are three pages in this volume that relate to Insurance payments for quarter ended 4 October 1942. Dates covered in this volume are November 1915-October 1919 for War Bonus payments and 1942 for Insurance payments. Attached to the inside cover of this volume is a table showing War Bonus details as from 1 November 1918.

1915-1943

1 volume

War bonus payments were paid to staff during the First World War to assist with the rising cost of living.

Salaries and Wages Book (including War Bonus Payments), DGH1/6/5/6

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