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Nick Welch OBE.. A FORMER senior Army officer is on trial at a military court accused of falsely claiming money from the MoD to pay for his children to attend boarding schools in Dorset. Major General Nick Welch OBE is being tried at Bulford Military Court. The prosecution says the 57-year-old applied for a Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) to allow his children to stay at £37,000-a-year Clayesmore School and £22,500-a-year Hanford School between December 2015 and February 2017. The CEA is aimed at allowing children of service personnel to remain at the same schools when their parents are posted to different locations.
Senior Army officer Nick Welch, 57, is alleged to have falsely claimed the money to pay for his children s boarding schools in Dorset between December 2015 and February 2017.
11:33 EDT, 5 March 2021
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An Army general accused of swindling nearly £50,000 in private school fees was reported by a colonel concerned he was never at home, a court martial heard today.
Major General Nick Welch, 54, allegedly claimed his wife Charlotte was living at the London residence he moved into upon staring a top job at the Ministry of Defence.
It meant he was eligible for an Army allowance towards his children s education that is given to servicemen on remote assignments, provided that the family is living with them.
But Col Jeremy Lamb, who lived on the same street in Putney, told the court he hardly ever saw the family at the home.