Crimea/ Scutari

[StevieSteve]

Hello

I've been ploughing through the Muster rolls of the 23rd Regiment of Foot for Shadrach / Shedarick Rook and at some point in 1855 his pay gets taken over by the Depot at Scutari for a few months.
Any idea why?

This seemed to correspond with a promotion to Corporal, later downgraded to Private.

My boy had a number of imprisonments.  Would these be under Court Martial? Are there records for these?

Lastly he got transferred to the 69th in about 1856. Before I look at those records,  do you know where were they roughly for the next 5 years?

[MaxD]

69th Regiment:

http://archive.org/stream/anarrativehisto01butlgoog#page/n128/mode/2up

MaxD

[Regorian]

Scutari was the main hospital (Florence Nightingale and all that), he was probably a patient.

[StevieSteve]

Thanks MaxD, very handy

And thanks, Regorian, though I have some doubts - the muster sheets usually mark the days in hospital and this specifically said that he was being paid by the Scutari Depot

Maybe there'll be some clues in

Reference:   WO 14
Title:   War Office: Scutari Depot Muster Books and Pay Lists

But that's for another visit