My auntie married a Canadian soldier during WWII. He got killed in Normandy, and she received a Canadian War Widow's pension that would have provided comfortably for her for life. Far better than anything the British govt provided for servicemen's families, then or now.
Silly cow married some Jewish bloke from West Hampstead, lost the pension,eventually divorced the second husband and ended up bringing up three kids in poverty, but that's another story. Working people in this country get lorded all over by the rich and powerful, and still keep voting for more of the same.