A ROYAL duke who served 21 years in the Royal Navy retired at 41 on a £22,000 small pension.
I served 32 years on the railway including two years’ press-ganged conscripted service in the Royal Navy.
At 23 I was driving steam express boat trains with up to 1,000 passengers with their lives in my hands.
My pension is £1,200 a year.
Brian Vincent
St Helens Green,
Harwich
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