Born at Adair, Co. Limerick, Ireland, on the 11th of July 1824.
Enlisted at Dundalk on the 12th of October 1846.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 9". Trade: Clerk.
Features: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of April 1850.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and reduced to Private on the 23rd of February 1853.
At Scutari General Depot aboard a hospital ship from the 31st of October 1854 and sent to rejoin the regiment on the 14th of December.
Was appointed Clerk in the Assistant Adjutant General's Office on the 24th of May 1854.
Replaced by Private William Ball of the 1st Dragoons on the 25th of August 1854.
Paymaster Sergeant (from Pte.) on the 31st of December 1854.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Entitled to extra pay of 6d. per day and the Honorary rank of Troop Sergeant Major from the 1st of January 1858, per authority of the War Office, dated the 11th of February 1858.
On passage from India on the 9th of March 1861 and is shown on the Brighton Depot roll from the 11th of July 1861.
Discharged from Maidstone Depot on the 17th of July 1861:
"Having completed a good service of fourteen years and would now be in the possession of two Good Conduct badges had he not been promoted to Sergeant With right of registry for a deferred pension of 6d. per day upon reaching the age of 50 years."
Served 14 years 242 days,
Conduct and character: "has been good." Once tried by Court martial.
The musters for July-September 1858 show no particular service movements during the whole of the period.
In action against the rebels at Zeerapore on the 29th of December 1858 and at Baroda on the 1st of January 1859.
Entitled (according to the medal rolls) to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal. However, the muster roll for the November period of 1854 shows him as "At Scutari, wounded" so could not have been entitled to the Inkerman clasp.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
To live in Dublin after discharge from the Depot musters, but his documents state "To live in America".
1881 Census
The Priory, Putney, Surrey.
The 1881 Census returns show a man of this name and age that match the details already known about O'Gorman. He is shown as a "Butler Domestic Servant" aged 55, born in Ireland, working in the household of a William Wood at The Priory, Putney, Surrey. This same man is further shown the GRO records as dying in the Wandsworth registration district in the March quarter of 1890. Could this be the same man who might have returned from America? [RM]
See above: shown in the GRO records as dying in the Wandsworth registration district in the March quarter of 1890.