Lot Essay
INDENTM.S.M. Submitted to the Queen 20.10.1848. "For his meritorious conduct at the period of the wreck of the Reserve Battalion, 91st Regiment in the Abercrombie Robinson in Table Bay on the 28th August, 1842."
Sergeant Major John Murphy joined the 91st Regiment at Longford, aged 18, 1827; Sergeant 1832; Sergeant Major 1842; distinguished himself during the voyage of the Abercrombie Robinson to the Cape of Good Hope, 28th August, 1842 when a Reserve Battalion of the 91st Regiment, including 90 women and children, was safely disembarked from the vessel during a hurricane; discharged at Chatham, 1848 (M.S.M. and granted an annual annuity of #20); appointed Warder of the Tower of London by the Duke of Wellington, 17th July that year,he died in the Tower, August 1852.
Sergeant Major John Murphy joined the 91st Regiment at Longford, aged 18, 1827; Sergeant 1832; Sergeant Major 1842; distinguished himself during the voyage of the Abercrombie Robinson to the Cape of Good Hope, 28th August, 1842 when a Reserve Battalion of the 91st Regiment, including 90 women and children, was safely disembarked from the vessel during a hurricane; discharged at Chatham, 1848 (M.S.M. and granted an annual annuity of #20); appointed Warder of the Tower of London by the Duke of Wellington, 17th July that year,he died in the Tower, August 1852.