'Corporal J. McLoughlin and Private W. Gleeson; both served with the Regiment in Turkey; landed in the Crimea on the 14th September 1854; were present at the Battles of the Alma and Inkermann, the fall of Sebastopol, and at the attack and occupation of the Cemetery before Sebastopol on 18 of June 1855. During the whole siege Corporal McLoughlin was never sick or absent from his duty one day, and took his regular tour of the trench duty. On the 18 June he volunteered to carry a letter to the advanced party from Major-General Sir William Eyre, then commanding the attack, which duty was performed in a most gallant mannner, under a very heavy and galling fire from the enemy. Private Gleeson on the same occasion volunteered for the advance party as sharpshooter, and distinguished himself by carrying to the rear, from an advanced post, a wounded comrade, under a very heavy and galling fire from the enemy' (Carter's Medals of the British Army and How They Were Won refers).