APPENDIX VI.
Annuities and Medals to Staff-Sergeants and Sergeants for distinguished or meritorious Services.
Annuities.
| 1846. Jan. 1. | Sergeant-major Jenkin Jones | £. 20 | Was distinguished in the discharge of his duties in the West Indies, and at Chatham and Woolwich. Relinquished the annuity on being commissioned to the rank of quartermaster in the corps. | |
| ” | Quartermaster-sergeant Robert Shorter | 10 | For zealous and efficient services both at home and abroad. Was fourteen years at Corfu. | |
| ” | Colour-sergeant James Young | 10 | For distinguished conduct in action with the Boers at Natal, and for highly efficient services and coolness in the defence of the position during its protracted siege by the Boers. | |
| ” | Colour-sergeant Wm. Black | 10 | For devoted services at Corfu, Gibraltar, and Halifax, N.S.; and particularly so on the Euphrates expedition and in the Syrian campaign. Was present at the taking of Beyrout and Acre. | |
| 1848. Jan. 14. | Colour-sergeant Wm. Young | 10 | For valuable services in connexion with the varied calculations pursued on the ordnance survey. Relinquished the annuity on being commissioned to the rank of quartermaster. | |
| 1848. Jan. 14. | Sergeant Thomas Connolly | 10 | For service in the brigade-major’s office at head-quarters. | |
| 1853 April 1. | Colour-sergeant Wm. Campbell | 10 | For distinguished services in prosecuting the ordnance surveys of Great Britain and Ireland. | |
| ” | Bugle-major David Youle | 10 | For long service, well-directed zeal in the discharge of his duties, and proficiency in conducting the band. | |
| 1855. April 1. | Sergeant-major Mich. Bradford | 10 | For constant zeal and uniform efficiency in his duties. Served several years at Gibraltar. Relinquished the annuity on being commissioned to be quartermaster. | |
| June 26. | Sergeant-major Henry Brown | 10 | For highly useful services at Gibraltar, in Syria, the Aland Islands, and Crimea. Was at the taking of Tyre, Sidon, and Beirout, the destruction of Bomarsund, and siege of Sebastopol. | |
| Dec. 17. | Colour-sergeant James Donelan | 10 | For unimpeachable accuracy in observing with the three-feet instrument for the great triangulation of the United Kingdom—a duty to which he attended for many years under strange vicissitudes and difficulties. | |
| 1856. April 1. | Colour-sergeant Hen. McDonald | 20 | For conspicuous bravery in the capture of the rifle-pits, 19th April, 1855, during which he was severely wounded. Served at Gibraltar, in Turkey, Bulgaria, and the Crimea. Was at the battles of Alma and Inkermann, and siege of Sebastopol. |