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| Name | WHITTLE – William |
|---|---|
| Regiment (s) | 71st Regiment |
| Regiment Number (s) | 972 |
| Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation | 19th September 1836 / 18 years / Dublin Ireland Smith |
| Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars | 5 Ft 8¾ in Fresh / Blue / Light Brown / None |
| Overseas Service/Duration | Canada – 5 years 6 months West Indies – 1 year 8 months Corfu – 2 years |
| Length of Service | 21 years 144 days |
| Rank/Date/Place of Discharge | Private / 9th February 1858 / Chatham Kent England |
| Campaign Medals | Not yet known |
| Intended Residence at Discharge | Brookeborough Fermanagh Ireland |
| Pension Districts | 1858 Enniskillen 1864 Tilbury 1864-1867 Western Australia |
| Pension Paid | 1/0d per diem |
| Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland | 1st July 1864 Portland Dorset England |
| Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia | MERCHANTMAN 12th September 1864 |
| Date/Place of Birth | c1818 Castlemacadam Rathdrum Wicklow Ireland |
| Date/Place of Baptism | Not yet known |
| Father Date/Place of Birth | Not yet known |
| Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage | Not yet known |
| Siblings | Not yet known |
| 1st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism | Did not marry |
| Date/Place of Marriage | Not applicable |
| Land Grants Western Australia | None |
| Occupation after Arrival | Not yet known |
| Newspaper Articles | Perth Gazette and West Australian Times 17th February 1865 page 2 Perth Gazette 23rd August 1867 |
| Departure from Western Australia | Not applicable |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial | Died 1867 Western Australia aboard Emma |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife | Not applicable |
| Will or Probate | None known |
| Further Information | British Army Worldwide index 1841 William Whittle 972 Private 71st foot location St. John’s Canada 1851 William Whittle 972 Private 71st foot location Dublin Discharge: Unfit for further service due to lumbago and varicose veins left leg The Surgeon Superintendent of the Merchantman said his conduct was ‘very good’. He was a single man.
In February 1865 after the murder of Messrs Panter, Goldwyer and Harding by aborigines it was decided to send a party of five EPGs to Nichol Bay abord the Clarence Packet. The chosen men were reported as Isaac Davis, Edward Goodall, John Farrell, William Whittle and a man named as Jarvice. The only EPG named Jarvis arrived in WA well after this date. EPGs Joseph Barr and Edward Radford went to Roebuck Bay aboard the Kestrel in September 1865. In 1867, these six EPGs and two others EPGs William Purvis and John Byrne perished aboard the Emma a schooner lost in a cyclone and wrecked off the coast of Coral Bay with the loss of all on board. The EMMA left Port Walcott (near Point Sampson), and the last recorded sighting was a Nichol Bay when the ship stopped there on 31 January 1867. The Emma was last heard from on 3rd March 1867 on departing Port Walcott Western Australia.
Thanks to David Senn of Albany for his research on the wreck of the Emma and Chris Hall’s 2001 article attached. |