A Victorian India service Medal with North East Frontier a1...

A Victorian India service Medal with North East Frontier a1891 and Lushai 1889-92 claps to '3105 Pte T M Endean 4th Btn K R Rif Co' *Notes- Rifleman Thomas M Endean (alias Dawes) enlistment papers show that he signed for the King's Royal Rifle Company on 6th November, 1885. On the 8th April ,1885 a Thomas Merrifield Endean enlisted into the C&TC. Between 22nd April and the 4th July 1885 he appeared in the Regimental Defaulters book twice for absenteeism and nine times in his Troop/Battery Defaulters book for either absenteeism or for being drunk. On Tuesday 11th July he was once again absent and his name was entered into the Police Gazette as a deserter. Transferred to the Army reserve in 1892 he served until December 1897 and was permitted to reside in South Africa. Anglo Boer War records show Thomas Merrifield Endean having served in 5th Company Border Horse (March-October 1900), Commander in Chiefs Bodyguard (Border Horse) (November 1990 to July 1901), 1st Scottish Horse (20th August 1901), Prince of Wales Light Horse (5th to 6th September 1901) and Kaffarian Rifles( no dates of service but listed on medal role July 1901). On the 3rd November a Thomas Merryfield Endean enlisted in Cardiff for the Rifle Brigade but was discharged as 'medically unfit'. In 1915 a Thomas Merrifield Endean was mobilized into the Royal Navy Reserves, his records noted 'Naval War Medals forfeited by desertion 25th December 1915'. Thomas Merrifield Endean then enlisted into the Army Veterinary Corps under the alias Thomas Dawes who died of heart failure in Woolwich Hospital 2nd June , 1916..

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