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| Name | RADFORD – Edward / Edwin |
|---|---|
| Regiment (s) | 4th Foot Honourable East India Company 2nd Bombay Fusiliers and 104th Regiment |
| Regiment Number (s) | HEIC – Not yet known 4th Foot – 1464 104th – 1414 |
| Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation | 4th regiment c1841 2nd Bombay fusiliers – 10th February 1852 / 29 years 11 months 104th – 1st November 1862 / Bristol Gloucester England Coachsmith |
| Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars | 5 Ft 6½ in Fresh / Brown / Brown / None |
| Overseas Service/Duration | 4th Regiment 8 years 215 days 2nd Bengal fusiliers 11 years 3 days 104th – 200 days plus 14 days |
| Length of Service | 21 years 323 days |
| Rank/Date/Place of Discharge | Approved Horse Guards 2nd June 1863 |
| Campaign Medals | Not yet known |
| Intended Residence at Discharge | Bristol England |
| Pension Districts | 1863 Bristol 1865 Tilbury 1865-1867 Western Australia (The balance of pension paid to his sister after Edward’s death) |
| Pension Paid | 11d per diem |
| Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland | 26th May 1865 Portland England |
| Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia | RACEHORSE 10th August 1865 |
| Date/Place of Birth | c 1821 Redcliff Somerset England |
| 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 | Not yet known |
| Date/Place of Marriage | Not yet known |
| Children by 1st 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 | The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times Friday 26th July 1867 – page 3 – “Emma” The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times Friday 23rd August 1867 – page 3 – “Emma” The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times Friday 30th August 1867 – page 2 – Emma The West Australian Monday 22nd March 1886 – page 3 – Emma |
| Departure from Western Australia | Not applicable |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial | Died 1867 Western Australia aboard Emma |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife | Not yet known |
| Will or Probate | None known |
| Further Information | British Army, Worldwide index 1841 Edward Radford 1464 4th Foot location Bellary 1851 Edward Radford 1464 4th Foot location Devonport 1851 Edward Radford 1414 104th foot location Meerut East Indies Discharge at own request having served upward 21 years On 25th May 1865 the day before the Racehorse sailed Edward Radford was reported in the Surgeon Superintendent’s journal “It having been proved that one of the Pensioner Guard named E. Radford had supplied the Convict Jones with a clasp knife he was removed from the Cooks Galley and ordered on watch and watch and to have his grog stopped during a period of 14 days.” However, on 4th June he remitted four days of Edward’s punishment.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. |