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Veteran, aged 90, still fighting to correct pension 'robbery'

Martin Jones
BBC West Investigations
Cheryl Dennis
BBC Points West
BBC 90-year-old Ernest Williams sat in a conservatory. There are large windows behind him showing blue sky and trees outside. BBC
Ernest Williams says he feels "bitter" about his treatment by the MOD and will keep fighting to get the pension he feels he deserves

Time has not dimmed Ernest Williams' sense of injustice.

Despite being 90 years of age, the Royal Navy veteran says he still has a "burning fire" inside him.

He believes he was "robbed" of the military pension he deserved and has been fighting to have it corrected since the 1980s.

"I'm coming up to 91 and I haven't got long to go," Mr Williams said. "I'm doing it for my wife."

It wasn't until Mr Williams had a chance conversation with his brother-in-law that he says he realised what had happened.

The two men had almost identical service records and both applied for redundancy when the UK armed forces looked to reduce numbers in 1969.

But while Mr Williams, who lives in King's Stanley, Gloucestershire, was given a discharge date in 1970, his brother-in-law was allocated one in 1972.

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