Ken, thanks for that.
Can you please confirm that service-number in your last msg (as: 436)? If that’s so, then we have yet another disparity.
Hmmm. The Boys Archive has:
Surname Rank Forename Regtl No Regiment
Dalton Pte Charles 1136 8th H
Dalton Pte Wilmall, Winnal,
William 1467 8th H
However, searching further through this archive shows Regimental Service Number 1467 as also being:
Leitch Cpl William 1467 4th LD
Proctor Pte John 1467 11th H
Note the same sort of duplication exists in another list:
Names of Officers and Troopers who took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade 25th October 1854.
Page Surname Initial Rank No. Reg’t Status in the Charge Died
88 Dalton C Pte 1136 8 th H Rode 05/02/1891
308 Ling R Pte 1136 17th L Killed 25/10/1854
112 Morris G Pte 1136 8th H Killed 25/10/1854
Note the three identical Service Numbers – two from the 8th. . . I’m presuming the service-numbering system then was a “per regiment” sequential system – but that still doesn’t account for the same 1136/1436 discrepancy; mind you, I’m of the opinion that this is likely to be a simple transcription error, or poor handwriting style that caused the “4” to be taken as a “1”.
The Balaclava Society’s Lists have:
Dalton H Pte (1877) Dalton Charles 1436 (1879)
Nothing/no one for 1136.
No other 1436.
Proctor J Pte (1877) Proctor John 1467 1879
Just for interest, I’m lunching with another Dalton GGrandson and GGGrandson this coming Thursday. Both of them have lately found an interest in Old Charles, or OC as we’ve dubbed him, and mine and Mike’s extant research product will have saved them a huge amount of time trawling the various websites and other repositories. Thanks to you and Annie, too.
During the following week, other GGrandchildren and myself will meet in Sydney where the proposition of holding a full get-together of OC’s descendants (in March 2011) for the 150th anniversary of his and his later to be wife Jessie’s arrival in Australia will be broached. If that gets up I shall keep this site apprised.
Brgds, DFN
