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 Soldiers Pension Details - 1896

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Date transcribed2009-00-00
Transcribed byPeter Rogers
CommentThe following data were taken in 1896 as a 'snapshot' of Pensioners who were formerly in service in India with the East India Company's Armies and/of the Indian Army. These data are transcribed from IOR/L/MIL/14/214

Note that many of the entries were made by persons with lack of knowledge of placenames or other details unfamiliar to better education. Accordingly, some of the spelling is not 'standard'!

IOR Reference  L/MIL/14/214 f.350    
Surname  Waite    
First Name(s)  Richard    
Record Date  03-Jun    
Record Year  1896    
Address  2,Houses, Lower Milk St.,off Tithebarn St.,Liverpool.    
Born  Grove biers, Parish of Storetown, Co.Wexford, Ireland.About December 1829.    
Trade  None they put down or Servant.    
Enlisted  Town of Wexford, Ireland 4th.April 1853.    
Regiment(s)  (1).3rd.Coy, 5th.Battn.Transfered to my Brother Sergeant John Waite in (2). 4th.Coy.1st.Battn.Bengal Horse Artillery and Pounder Guns.The Battery besieged at the Residency Lucknow.    
Served Under  Lieut.Alexander on the night of the outbreak, Major Ney at the Siege also Sir Henry Lawson & Col. Ingloids, Gens. Havelock, Outram, Mansfield Airey, Sir Colin Campbell & others.    
Discharged  India Office,London,11th.November 1858. Service 5yrs.1mth. Pension = 1s.3d.    
Cause of Discharge  Gun shot wounds through the left hand loss of the fore finger the hand and wrist shattered.    
Medals  Medal & Clasp for the Siege of Lucknow.    
Regimental Number  7931.(Corporal.)    
Wounds or Distinguishing Marks  Gun shot wounds through left thigh,4th.July 1857.14 days under it.Gun shot wound through left hand,6th.January 1858.Stiff wrist the hand is useless in my work. I beg to state I am entitled to 2 years Service for the Siege also 3d. per day for the secd wound.    
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In 1896 the Military Pension authorities determined to take a snapshot of ex-soldiers of the EIC & Indian Armies who were receiving a pension in Europe. This snapshot provides very interesting details of the careers of each soldier and each widow receiving a pension.
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