Death & burial
According to FindAGrave he is buried in All Saints Churchyard, Durrington, Wiltshire:
(Photos: wertypop)
There was originally no information about this man in the EJBA.
When he started researching the field, Jim Boys included only those men he knew from records had actually arrived in the Crimea and were entitled to the Crimea Medal. He later accepted that this was too restrictive, but was unable to add all the men who embarked for but did not reach the Crimea. Many, for example, died en route at Varna, Bulgaria, where epidemic diseases such as cholera were rife in the camps. Others arrived too late to qualify.
The current editors are intending to include these men, and will be adding information as soon as possible.
Further information, Crider 3rd edition p.195.
PB, June 2015: There is a considerable amount of info available online e.g. in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College (also holds the papers of his sons, Philip Poore, Lt Col Roger Alvin Poore and Brig Gen Robert Montagu Poore).
There are letters in the NAM:
Ref 7509-60,61 1854 Jun — 1858 Dec Letters from RP to his parents from the Crimea and from India during the Mutiny. Bound MS & TS.
See also his remarkable work introducing the Land Court and leasehold smallholdings etc in Winterslow, Wiltshire (see e.g. http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom2.php?id=253). NB search the Wiltshire archives.
Check his remarkable son, also named Robert Poore, in Wikipedia.
In a letter dated the 21st of June 1858 and now in the National Army Museum, Captain Robert Poore wrote:
In front of the Pass we had just come out of, Heneage (commanding the squadron) and Reilly (the Right troop) fell out with a lot of the men, done up by the sun, and poor Reilly and two or three of the men, died. You had better go to young Reilly's wife and break the news to her. I've got a ring of his, and will send it with his medal at the first opportunity. There is no doubt that drink fuddled him up; his wine bills were more than any other of the Regiment."
Written on the flap of another letter dated the 30th of June 1858:
"Poor Reilly, I told you of his death in my last letter; he dismounted, fell, and was never conscious after that. They tried to bleed him but without effect and there was no water nearby, and he was soon dead. You must break it to his wife as gently as you can. His Medal and ring will be sent at the first opportunity. Between ourselves, his constitution was broken by drink."
Reilly's death in this manner, as reported, would seem to confirm what his wife said when she claimed a widow's pension — that he had died of "sunstroke".
[PB, June 2015: I've just compared what is said above (The section "In a letter dated 21st June..."sunstroke'.") with Reily's entry in Dutton, Forgotten Heroes, p.68. Dutton's version has been taken word-for-word from EJB, yet it appears without credit. I wonder how much more RD took from EJB, and how he did it?]
According to FindAGrave he is buried in All Saints Churchyard, Durrington, Wiltshire:
(Photos: wertypop)