Mr, Walsh was the only member of the regiment entitled to wear the Meritorious Service Medal, which wag awarded him eight years ago as 4 mark of the nation's grateful apredation of his faithful and devoted service, This distinction was an important addition to his fine array of honours, and was presented to him at Victoria Barracks, Belfast, in 1927
He was virtually born a member of the Royal Inniskillings, in which Fegiment four successive generation: of his family have now served during the past 140 years. "He sprang from Inn{skdlling stock, for hig grandfather fought with the 27th Regiment, as it was then termed, in the Peninsular wars and also at Waterloo, Hig father and two uncles belonged to the Inrlskillings, while n younger brotbe now resident at Dunmurry, Treland, served with the late Mr. Walsh, His son carried on the family tradition, erying with the regiment throughout the Great War, and" was severely Wounded at Gallipoli, while a nephew was Killed, The tate Mr, Walsh wag born at Dover in 1854, just before the reglment, in which his father was stationed, proceeded to Indis. The voyage, the ast was a memorable one, being made in an old sailing vessel, the Charlotte, which went ashore Delagoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Many men, women, and children lost their Lives in the' wreck, and Mr," Walsh, who was: then but a child in arms, "was the: last survivor of the ship's company, Among his early adventures were many thrilling" experiences in the Indian Mutiny, but these early encounters with danger and death only seemed to whet the appetite of the young boy, and he joined the regiment before it left India in 1068, the age of fourteen,
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