The Folk from the Wind Wound Isle > Chapter 7: Agnes Robertson McCue - appendix
The first document is the record of a District Court Martial in Newcastle, Jamaica in 1857. For reproduction on this page, I've had to reduce images of all documents in size, and these two pages may not be easily readable. The line relating to Michael Grace reads thus.
Date of entry: 1858 January 1st; rank: Private; name: Michael Grace; Regiment: 41 Foot; where trial held: Newcastle Jamaica; date of trial: 7 November; nature of charge: Habitual Drunkenness; sentence: 56 days with hard labour & stoppages (meaning stoppage of privileges – usually the grog allowance); remitted: 28 days hard labour
These are copies from the War Office series medal rolls from WO100-29. The documents show that Private Michael Grace was awarded the Crimea Medal with bars for Alma, Inkermann, and Sevastopol.
Below is a Crimea Medal with bars like those awarded to Private Michael Grace.
The following three documents have to do with Michael Grace receiving a Deferred Pension. Usually a deferred pension is offered at age 60. The first document indicates that he got 4d. (per day) on his DP (deferred pension). The date ties in with his sixtieth year.
The second is a record raised at the time of his discharge and examination for an invalid pension.
The third indicates he was entitled to a DP in 1881 – which seems to be a clerical error for 1891.
War Office series WO97 documents - records of the non-officer class of the British Army, retained when a soldier discharges to pension - the Chelsea Pension in fact.
The remaining four pages are the attestation documents.
All of the above documents have been made available by the kindness of researcher Diane Oldman - to whom many thanks. See also her website for Crimean War veterans.
Garry Gillard | New: 14 March, 2019 | Now: 5 September, 2022