40th Regiment of Foot

2nd Sommerset shire

Paylist October to December 1854

and the troop involvement  at the Eureka Stockade

Ballarat Victoria

This will become a data base of some names of soldiers of the 40th Regiment of Foot for 1854. This was gathered from  the pay lists AJCP WO 12 

and

UPDATE  February 2007

My ancestor William Prayle was at the Eureka Stockade uprising in December 1854.

I have just started to do research on him being there with the 40th Regiment of Foot. 

Thanks to George for supplying the following information I did not have 

William Prayle Private, age 34, 
5ft 5in tall, brown hair, Blue eyes,fair complexion,

 short istory

On the 12th July, the Reg't under the command of Lt Col T.J. Valiant embarked on H.M Steam Ship Vulcan and sailed on the 15th, arriving in Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip on the 19th October, disembarked at Melbourne on the 4th and 5th November 1852

The regiment left Australia in 1860 for New Zealand for the Maori War. They returned to England in 1866, and after various postings they went to Ireland untill 1872, when once again the 40th was posted to India.

40th Regiment of Foot pay list1854

List shows name, rank , rate of pay or if absent from duty.

Extra money was earnt for good behaviour. 

I have scanned some of the pay lists at

http://www.angelfire.com/film/vulcan/40th_reg

                                                                              Includes                                 

Distribution of British troops in Australia

            October 1854 January 1855

H.M. Vulcan notice of Quarantine for outbreak of smallpox October 1852

HM Vulcan release from Quarantine

This certificate is an original that has been in the family since 1857. William Prayle was my Great Great Grandfather. He settled in Ballarat.

More details added soon.

 Note the signature of Colonel Valiant on the certificate

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27th February 2007