He served at Malta in 1876 and China in 1878, being promoted to a sergeant four' years later. He was with "the regiment at. Singapore, Hongkong, and South Africa (from 1684 to 1890), and took part in the Sekuris Rebeition in South Africa in 1868. He returned to England the following year, being discharged 3808 but he remained with his regiment as canteen steward in Mullingar until it Toft with his old" comrades for the South African war, He first married an Enniskillen girl, who had followed him out to Hongkong. The rigours. of the climate and the hardships of the life in those days proved too strong for her, and both she and their three children died at Singapore. When. the regiment some years later moved to South Africa, he met his second
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