Born at Curnow, Co. Wicklow.
Enlisted at Dublin on the 13th of August 1833.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Black-smith.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Blue eyes. Lt. brown hair.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.
He was sent to the Depot when the regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign. 1st of October 1857
Discharged from Canterbury on the 5th of November 1857.
"Own request, after 24 years' service."
Served 24 years 84 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Twice tried by Court-martial.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned from the 14th-23rd of January 1837.
"Absent without leave." Sentenced by the Commanding Officer and confined 26th-30th of January 1845.
"Absent without leave." Sentenced by the Commanding Officer and confined 2nd-8th of August 1845.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned 11th-18th of November 1847.
Aged 43 years on discharge. He was awarded a pension of 10d per day.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with four clasps and the Turkish Medal.
Attended the first Balaclava Banquet in 1875, but his name does not appear amongst the members of the Balaclava Society when first formed in 1877.
His portrait and account of the Charge appeared in the "Illustrated London News" for the 30th of October 1875. (See copy in the 8th Hussar file.)
After discharge, he was intending to live at 32, George Street, Millwall, London.
He was admitted to the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an In-Pensioner on the 1st of February 1874.
At the time of his admittance as an In-Pensioner at Chelsea Royal Hospital he was 56 years of age, had "no wife or family," and was formerly living at No. 4 Bow Common Lane, Bromley.
Died at the Chelsea Royal Hospital on the 23rd of January 1878, aged 60 years.
See copy of a photograph of his grave site in the Chelsea Pensioner's Plot in Brompton Cemetery, London, in the 8th Hussar file. No headstone was erected.
Extract from The Regiment for the 2nd of April 1904:
"During the Crimean War, Mrs. Sheridan, who belonged to the 8th Hussars, had messed them and done their washing.
She was a really saving, hard-working woman, but she had for a husband one of the most thirsty souls imaginable for a husband and many were the shifts and contrivances he made to get money out of his better half, and many were the out-of-the way-places his frugal help-mate used to hide her money from him.
One day he was "on the spree", and as usual with Anthony, he was completely out of money, had been on a private exploring expedition through the house endeavouring to find one of his wife's secret hoards.
He had just made one last appeal to one of the many saints in the calendar to direct him where to seek, when he saw the edge of a sovereign sticking out from beneath a box on the floor, and in quick time, with some comrades, he was converting the pure gold into pure spirits.
His better-half soon missed the money, but not before Anthony was speechless.
Next morning, her reproaches were highly amusing, especially when she met her husband's denials and excuses with the retort, "Oh, Anthony, if the devil were to pop in now and he looking for a liar, wherever should I hide you?"