Eureka 40th Regiment of Foot

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Contents 1 Regimental history 2 Soldiers posted to Ballarat to quell the Eureka Rebellion 1854 3 List of casualties incurred by the force under the command of Captain J. W. Thomas, 40th Regiment, in the attack on the rebel, camp at Eureka, on the 3rd December, 1854 3.1 Ex-Sergeant Bass 3.2 Martin Cusack Martin Cusack (1827-1912) 4 Sources

Regimental history

• Historical records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) regiment by Smythies, Raymond Henry Raymond, Publication date 1894 retrieved through archive.org
  • 1854 from https://archive.org/details/historicalrecor00smytgoog/page/n457/mode/1up?view=theater

Soldiers posted to Ballarat to quell the Eureka Rebellion 1854

In the first instance this list compiled from http://www.eurekapedia.org/Military#40th_Regiment

Muster roll covering December 1854 at mfm PRO 416-6580-Records of the War Office (as filmed by the AJCP)/Fonds WO/Series WO 12/Subseries (Pieces 2118-9899)/Subseries (Pieces 5336-39, 5363-5386)/File 5366. AJCP Reel No: 3777/40th Regiment: 2nd Somersetshire retrieved through https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1593342586/view

Sortable table

regimental number	rank	first name	last name	references	notes
			Adams
		Arthur	Atkinson
	Sergeant	Thomas	Bass		Thomas Bass (abt.1831-1912)
3066	Private	Josiah	Bigsby		Name: Private Josiah Bigsby Enlistment Age: 23 Discharge Age: 32 Birth Date: abt 1829 Birth Place: St. Gregory, Suffolk Enlistment Year: 1852 Discharge Year: 1861 Regiment: 40th REGT. OF Foot Regimental Number: 3066[1]
		Thomas	Bodely
		George	Bowdler
		Thomas	Breadley
		Denis	Brien
		John	Broadhurst		John Edward Brodhurst (1830-1899)
		James	Brown
		Thomas	Bruce-Gardyne
	Private	John	Bryan		severely wounded[2]
		Patrick	Burke
		Patrick	Butler
3156	Private	George	Byford		Name: Private George Byford Enlistment Age: 18 Discharge Age: 30 Birth Date: 1830 Birth Place: Foxearth, Essex, England Enlistment Year: 1848 Discharge Year: 1860 Regiment: 40th REGT. OF Foot Regimental Number: 3156. gave evidence identifying a rebel[3]
		John	Byrne
		John	Cameron
		John	Campbell
		Samuel	Clampet
		William	Cliff
		Edwin	Coles
		Henry	Collis
		William	Cork
	Private	Henry	Cottes		slightly wounded[2]
		John J.	Crow
		Martin	Cusack		Martin Cusack (1827-1912) died Ballarat 1912
	Private	John	Donnelly		High treason trial witness[4]
		George	Davis
		Patrick	Dwyer
		Henry	Fisher
		Thomas	Fitzgerald
		William	French
		Thomas	Frost
		William	Gardener
		Thomas	Gardyne
		Michael	Gay
		James Glancy	Glancy
		James	Gore		High treason trial witness[4]
	Sergeant	Daniel	Hagerty		High treason trial witness
3091	Private	Israel	Hales		Private Hales served in New Zealand during the Maori Wars of the early 1860s. He had left the army by 1869, receiving his discharge in New Zealand. [5] Name: Israel Hales Birth Year: abt 1830 Birth Place: Suffolk Age at Attestation: 22 Attestation Date: 5 Jun 1852 Attestation Place: Sudbury, Suffolk Regimental Number: 3091[6] Possible NZ death index 1913/3199 Hales Isreal [sic] 83Y. Israel Hales (40th) mentioned in the laying of a foundation stone for a Veterans' Home in Auckland NZ May 1903[7]
		Charles	Hall
		Edward	Harris
	Sergeant	James	Harris		James Harris (abt.1820-bef.1920) High treason trial witness[4]
		John	Harvey
		Daniel	Hegarty		High treason trial witness[4]Daniel Hegarty (abt.1820-bef.1920)
		James	Hill
		George	Howdler
		Alfred	Hurlestone
		R.C.	Hutchings		Robert Charles Hutchings (abt.1829-1912)
		Joseph	Jubb
	Private	William	Juniper		severely wounded[2]
		John	Keeble
		James	Kelly
		Lawrence	Kelly
		Hugh	King
		John	Knowles
		Charles	Ladbrook
		Francis	Langham
		Frederick	Langham
		John	Langham
		James	Louge
		Patrick	Lynot		High treason trial witness[4]
		William	MacCarron
		John	Mallagh
		William	Manella
	Private	John	Manning
		Michael	McAdam
		Peter McCabe	McCabe
		Justin	MacCarthy
		John	McEvoy
		Henry	McDermott
		Thomas	McDermott
		John	McGurk
		Samuel	McKee		Samuel McKee (abt.1821-1897)
		John	Macoboy
		Charles	Meacham
		Charles	Miner
		William	Mole
		Arthur	Mollers
		Michael	Moran
		Lot	Mullen
		Michael	Murphy
		William	Murrell
		Charles	Must
		John	Neill
		Thomas	Nelson
		Mark	Noble
		Michael	O'Connel
		Edward	O'Dell
	Private	Bernard	O'Donnell		severely wounded
	Private	Patrick	O'Keefe		High treason trial witness[4]
		Henry	Patchett
		William	Pearce
		William	Prayle
		Joseph	Rayner
		Thomas	Reed
		Patrick	Reilly
		William	Revel		High treason trial witness[4]
		Bailey	Richards
		Thomas	Richards		High treason trial witness[4]
		William	Richardson		High treason trial witness[4]
		Edward	Riley
	Private	Michael	Roney/Rooney		killed[2]
		John	Ryan
		John	Sharland
	Private	Patrick	Sinnott		High treason trial witness
		William	Smith
		Cornelius	Sorrell
		James	Stowe
	Private	Patrick	Sullivan		slightly wounded[2]
		William	Swan
	Captain	John	Thomas		High treason trial witness
		James	Turner
		Thomas	Valiant
	Private	Joseph	Wall		motally wounded, since dead[2]
		Patrick	Walsh
		William	Webb
		Cornelius	Whelan
	Captain	Henry C	Wise		dangerously wounded[2]; subsequently died
		Hans	White
		John	White

List of casualties incurred by the force under the command of Captain J. W. Thomas, 40th Regiment, in the attack on the rebel, camp at Eureka, on the 3rd December, 1854

-40th Regiment.

• Private Michael Rooney, killed.
• Captain H. C. Wise, dangerously wounded.
• Private John Bryan, severely ditto
• Private Henry Cottes, slightly wounded.
• Private William Juniper, severely ditto.
• Private Bernard O'Donnell, severely ditto,
• Private Joseph Wall, mortally, since dead.
• Private Patrick Sullivan, slightly wounded.

By command, (Signed) E. MACARTHUR, D.A.G.^[2]

Ex-Sergeant Bass

"A EUREKA VETERAN. HIS DEATH REPORTED: MELBOURNE, Saturday. The death, is reported of Ex-Sergeant Bass at the age of 82, who was a member of the Fortieth Regiment and was present at the Eureka riots"^[8].

Martin Cusack Martin Cusack (1827-1912)

MARTIN CUSACK. EUKEKA STOCKADE VETERAN'S DEATH. Martin Cusack, who was the last of the 40th Regiment that was engaged in 1854 in the fight with the early diggers at the Eureka Stockade, died in the Ballarat Benevolent Asylum recently. In the attack on the stockade in the early morning the 40th Regiment was assisted by two companies of the 12th Regiment, which was on service in Australia, while both bodies received the support of a number of naval men belonging to a British cruiser then lying in Hobson's Bay. Cusack, who was 85 years of age, was of opinion that the revolt was a great mistake, and was not justified. Cusack, in conversation with a re-presentative of the "Age", said:— "We of the 40th Regiment marched to Ballarat from Melbourne much against our will. The Ballarat diggers, we knew, were our own kith and kin, and we felt it would be a poor hour of day if we were ordered to fire at them. Many of us prayed during our march through the bush that the men of the Eureka would see that there could possibly be no hope for them in a battle with well-trained Imperial soldiers, such as the 12th and 40th Regiments. Their brush with us was a forlorn hope, and we all wished to avoid meeting them. We quietly agreed among ourselves that if we had to shoot we would fire high in order to frighten the diggers, who, as I have said, were our own kith and kin from England, Ireland, Scotland, and America. Just as we were marching on Ballarat, however, a thing occurred that greatly exasperated the soldiers. We were marching in fours near the Red Hill, when a digger (a colored man) stepped out of his tent, and picking up a quartz boulder, he threw it at our flank, killing our little drummer boy. When the poor little fellow collapsed, and rolled over his drum, we all swore we would revenge his death by showing no quarter in fair battle." The veteran, who enlisted in the 40th Regiment in Ireland in 1850, had been confined to his bed in the Benevolent Asylum for seventeen years.^[9].

Sources

1. ↑ UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Soldier Service Records, 1760-1920 retrieved through ancestry.com (subscription $)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Sydney Morning Herald, 19 December 1854, page 5 http://www.eurekapedia.org/Felix_Boyle
3. ↑ "...George Byford, private 40th, recognises Ferguson. Saw him inside the stockade. He had no arms. Saw him run from one tent to another...." BALLAARAT. (1854, December 11). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 5. Retrieved January 9, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801610
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8} WITNESSES. (1855, February 14). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved August 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851351
5. ↑ http://www.eurekapedia.org/Israel_Hales
6. ↑ UK, Army Regimental Rolls of Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers, 1806-1892 retrieved through ancestry.com (subscription$)
7. ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19030526.2.84
8. ↑ The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950), Mon 30 Dec 1912, Page 1. Retrieved June 26, 2021, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79937836
9. ↑ The Forbes Advocate (NSW : 1911 - 1954), Fri 1 Nov 1912, Page 11. Retrieved June 26, 2021, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113856071