On Irish Times "still missing" list put out by the British
1863 Born Mallow (service record)
1887 May 29 Enlisted in Royal Irish Regt
1893 Oct 11 Promoted Cpl
1893 Nov 27. Posted to India
1896 Dec 5. Promoted Sgt
1897 Jul 26 Convicted in making false statements in returns, reduced to the ranks
1898 May 17. Appointed L/Cpl
1903 Mar 19. Posted back to UK
1905 Jan 15. Marriage
1907 Dec 2.Son born in Buttevant William McCarthy is a Colour Sergeant in Royal Irish Regt
1908 Aug 28 Drunkenness, reduced from Colour Sgt to Sgt
1908 Aug 19 Son William John born Blackdown
1909 Nov 3. Pensioned from British Army. His Royal Irish Regt service no was 6319 . Medically unfit
1911 census at Ballyvoloon, Queenstown , Cork
1921 May 23. Kidnapped
1921 May 29. Shot by IRA
Compensation Commission Register shows £2,600 was awarded. Register of Compensation Commission (Ireland) Cases of Private Persons (CO 905/15, TNA).