Born at Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
(He was baptised at Burton-upon-Trent on the 29th of May 1836, as Daniel Oliver, the son of Henry and Mary Oliver.)
Enlisted at London on the 17th of January 1855.
Age: 19 years 9 months.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Blacksmith's-striker.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.
From Private to Farrier (as Sergeant) on the 4th of February 1860.
Discharged, "time expired", from Edinburgh on the 16th of January 1867.
Aged 31 years 9 months on discharge.
Re-enlisted into the 6th Dragoons on the 24th of April 1867. Regimental No. 844.
Former service in the 4th Light Dragoons allowed to reckon under the Army Re-
Appointed Farrier (as Sergeant) on the 3rd of September 1868.
Discharged from Dundalk on the 8th of May 1876.
"Free, at own request, after 21 years' service."
Served 21 years 16 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 10 months.
Conduct: "very good".
In possession of five Good Conduct badges.
Twice entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 40 years 6 months on discharge.
To live at No. 5 The Lawn, Belturbet, Ireland.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, the Turkish Medal and the Long Service medal with a gratuity of £5.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 16th of February 1874.
Granted a pension of 2/- per day.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
In 1993 his great-grand-daughter, a Mrs. Phillips of Edinburgh, being in possession of his medals, wrote to the 6th Dragoons asking for information. They were only able to provide her with information from his marriage certificate and she was passed on to the HQ of the 4th/8th Hussars. They also not being able to help, the letter(s) were sent on and a copy of this record sent to her. His group of medals, comprises of the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, the Turkish Crimea and the L.S. & G.C medal. The first is named as "Private D. Oliver. 4th Light Dragoons.", the Turkish medal is un-named and the L.S & G.C is to "844 Farrier (R) [sic] Daniel Oliver. 6th Inniskilling Reg. of Dragoons." The lady in question is rather confused with the wreath suspension of the Crimean medal, thinking this to be a "Mention in dispatches" and with the TM as well. She had written to some-one in France about this and the reply was that it was completely unknown to them but believed to have been something given by Queen Victoria. (From the description given this was of the Sardinian type.) The group of medals are on a large buckle type suspension, although in reverse order, on the original ribbons and the Crimean medal in particular looking very badly edge-knocked. (See photograph of the group in the 4th Hussar file.) The 6th Dragoons Registry of Marriages shows him as having married Belinda Boyle at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, on the 17th of December 1860, he as a bachelor and she a spinster. Added this was "Previous to re-enlistment.", (he was in the 4th Hussars at the time.) Also provided by the regiment was the registry of baptism of the children of the marriage up to his discharge. (See copies of these Regimental records in the 4th Hussar file. From the 1881/1891 Census Returns he was living in Belgrave Street, Chester, his trade being that of a blacksmith. (St. Catherine's House registers record a man of this name as dying at Chester during the October-December quarter of 1907, aged 71 years.) His wife had died on the 1st of April 1893, and is said to have been buried in the Old part of Overleigh Cemetery but although he is also thought to have been buried in the same cemetery was not interred with her.
(The records of the Cemetery show him as being buried in a public grave, No. 5268, in the Old Part as the 1st interment in it... Daniel Oliver, aged 71 years, buried on the 27th of December 1907 from No. 16 St. Mark's Road, Chester.)