GRAHAM – Edward 98th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	GRAHAM – Edward
Regiment (s)	98th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	2413
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	14th October 1843 / 21 years 6 months / Gloucester England Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 6 in Fresh / grey / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	China – 1 year 340 days East Indies – 2 years 309 days
Length of Service	6 years 312 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 10th September 1850 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	Not yet known
Intended Residence at Discharge	Liverpool England
Pension Districts	1850 Liverpool 1851 Tilbury Fort 1851- Western Australia
Pension Paid	7d per diem – temporary pension to 1st April 1852
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	1st February 1851 Falmouth England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	MERMAID 15th May 1851
Date/Place of Birth	1822 Bray 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
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	Not married
Date/Place of Marriage	Not yet known
Children by 1^st Wife	Not yet known
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Not yet known
Departure from Western Australia	Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial	Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	Not married
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	Reason for Discharge – Unfit for service due to ‘fistulous openings in the perineum’. Edward Graham was one of 5 pensioners sent to join the ship at Portsmouth after several of the Guard were put ashore when their children were hospitalized from contracting measles. He was in receipt of a temporary pension which ended 1st April 1852 and from that time was not mentioned in the War office records. SO Bruce was advised he was not to employ temporary pensioners on the Enrolled Force after the expiry of their pension (unless there was no alternative man available) as the War Office had no control over temporary pensioners once their pension ceased. Our records about this man come to an end in 1852 – when he was still a relatively young man of thirty years of age. He is not mentioned as having left the Colony before that date and so far has not turned up in any shipping records or BDMs of any state in Australia.