Born c.1833.
Enlisted at Westminster on the 19th of October 1851.
Age: 17 years 9 months.
Trade: None shown.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.
Served with Lord Raglan's Escort Troop during 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 17th of September 1857.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
From Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of November 1858.
Transferred to the 19th Hussars on the 1st of November 1863. Regimental No. 687.
Discharged from Calcutta, India, on the 19th of January 1866. No other details are shown.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
His medals were said to have been sold at Turtle's in May of 1916, but no catalogues of this company are known to exist.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
A group of three medals, consisting of the Crimean medal with four clasps, stated to be "original, as issued", Mutiny medal with clasp for "Central India" to "Sergeant Wm. Mock. 8th Hussars." and the Turkish medal (Sardinian type, with double ring suspension as "originally issued") appeared in Bostock's Medal List of mid 1999. The ribbons were very frayed, giving the impression that they could well have been original, but the medal themselves were cleaned. Claimed at the same time was that he had ridden in the Charge, and repeated the knowledge that his medals were sold at Turtles in May of 1916.
It is now known that the English Crimean medal "as originally issued" [sic] with the group was an un-named one and the Turkish medal equally so, only the Mutiny medal being actually that awarded to William Mock. Further to this, it is known that earlier in 1999 a genuine rather stained Indian Mutiny medal named to him was offered at a medal fair for around £400, the dealer claiming that Mock was a confirmed charger.
At the time of the group being offered at the OMRS Convention in September of 1999, the dealer had put the other two medals with it with an asking price of £1600, and offered a detailed story about how the medals had been bought from a house clearance and explaining the difference in tone of the Mutiny medal from the others by saying that the Mutiny medal had been kept separately in a tea caddy.
What is obviously the samr group was said to have been seen on Bostock's stand at the Brittannia Medal fair in March of 2000, but no further details are known.