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This [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5904#p23104 link] <ref name=Skel /> has some general information about pensions, quoting from ''The Victorian Army at Home'' by AR Skelley
=====Other service records=====
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14234 '''WO 25''' War Office and predecessors Registers] With a Search. Click on “browse by … reference” for the various records. Includes some records of service, embarkation, disembarkation information etc. Download the records for free through the record references in the National Archives' Discovery catalogue.
Note a selection of WO 25 records is available on Ancestry, (pay website), in the dataset [https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3253 "Canada, British Regimental Registers of Service, 1756-1900"]
[[FamilySearch]] has a selection of WO 25 indexed records, (free), see
[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/175494 FamilySearch catalogue entry] where the magnifying glass icon indicates the records which have been indexed and are now searchable - click further near the red text. These appear to be mainly pre 1850 records. The digitised microfilms, (which are only a selection of WO 25 records), including those from which the index records are derived, are available to members of the public with restrictions, see [[FamilySearch Centres]].
=====Kilmainham Pensioners=====
