Assistance required re Wm Henry Wright - UK Army service c 1870s.

[Elwyn Soutter]

I am looking for a military record for William Henry WRIGHT (known as Henry) born 1856 Great Bentley, Essex. He is reported to have joined the Royal Inniskillings. He can be placed in Enniskillen in 1878 because he had a daughter born there.  By 1880 he was in Belfast working as a full time musician, and so had evidently left the army. So any military career must be c 1872 – c 1879. Not sure of his exact role in the army but he was a noted musician and so may perhaps have been in the band.

[MaxD]

A Henry Wright appears in the 1871 army index stationed at Colchester in the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot.  (The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with that name didn't exists as such before 1881).  No detailed record though.  The 1871 census for Colchester may give further detail.  In 1878 however, the regiment was in Malta and Colchester so was he out of the army then?

maxD

[Elwyn Soutter]

maxD,

Thank you for that. I suspect you have the correct man. Henry's daughter's 1878 birth certificate in Enniskillen gives his occupation as "music teacher," so I’d guess he had left the army by then. I have some details of his life before the army, and I know what happened to him after 1880. So it’s just the military career that I am focusing on at present.

What military records may exist for him, and where would they be located?

[Jebber]

His military career seems to have been very brief, without qualifying for a pension there unlikely to be any records for him. There is nothing on Findmypast where one would expect find records if there were any.

[Elwyn Soutter]

Many thanks.