Service
To Corporal from Private: 31st of August 1847.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 23rd of August 1848 and reduced to Private, but this sentence was remitted by order of the Military Governor, Dublin.
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1851 Census
Preston Barracks, Brighton, Sussex.
Harry Mccluer, Corporal, Mar., 24, Norwich, St Mary's.
Elizabeth Mccluer, Domestic, 28, Soldiers Wife / School Mistress, Berkshire.
Maria Mccluer, Daughter, 7, Meath Dondock [Dundalk?], Soldier's Daughter.
William Mccluer, Son, 1, Kildare, Newbridge [?], Soldier's Son.
His wife was the Regimental School-Mistress at Brighton in 1851.
Corporal to Sergeant: 2nd of November 1851.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Medora" on the 27th of April 1854. Appointed to Troop Sergeant Major on the 27th of July 1854.
Killed in action at Balaclava.
In a letter to the Cornet George Clowes's family [to GC's father?], written from the "Heights of Sevastopol" on 26 October 1854, Lieut. Seager refers briefly to the death of NCOs, including HM:
"Among the 26 killed were Troop Sergeant McClure [sic], Sergeants Williams and Reilly; R.S.M. Harding I am glad to say was not out with us that day, although much to his annoyance. I might have had a different account to give of him if he had been. He was laid up with a boil on his leg."