Death gratuity for soldiers who died in service?

[D B Campbell]

Was there any provision made for the families of such soldiers? I would think that since these, for the most part, would not be citizens that would be unlikely.

Roman soldiers had an extremely free hand in drafting a will. Gaius' Institutes tell us that soldiers were exempted from the usually strict rules "in consideration of their extreme ignorance of law" (2.109) and may make peregrini (i.e. non citizens) their heirs (2.110).