Chelsea Pensioners

[bednobs]

what exactly are they? What benefits does being one confer? I looked via google, but couldn't really work it out - it just seemed like supported living for ex servicemen?

[tamborine]

Widower (vulnerable) ex servicemen care home.

[Sqad]

Nursing home and care for ex Army personnel, not RAF or navy just Army.

[Prudie]

It is supported living but it runs like being in a regiment with uniform and ranks - that's what I recall from the programmes about it a year or so back. Quite hard to get in I believe.

[campbellking]

Is now also open to ex-servicewomen.

[tonyav]

http://www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/become-chelsea-pensioner

[janbee]

My late uncle was a Chelsea Pensioner.

[TWR]

I thought you would have known the answer to your q!

[bednobs]

but i didn't. However i do now.