Corporal Samuel MERRYLEES. No 4 Battery, 1st Brigade, Royal Artillery Born 1846, killed at Fort Manoel 22 Dec 1883, aged 37 years. He was stabbed by a gunner in the groin with a sword bayonet. He bled to death from a severed external iliac artery when stabbed in the groin with a sword bayonet by a gunner. On the 21st March 1869 at Poplar Middlesex he married widow, Sarah Jane Merrilees nee Boulter. She was widow of William Thomas Merrilees. He gave his rank as Sergeant when he got married.
At rest in Plot 2. Row 10A. Grave 8 Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.
He is listed on all the burial sites as Samuel MERRYLEES, I was unable to locate any info other than below:
The Regiments of The Malta Garrison, The Royal Artillery.
The RA had an average strength of 1062 men. It had 690 admissions (649.7/1000 mean strength) into hospital with 16 deaths (15.06 deaths/1000 mean strength).
30 invalids returned to England.
Its average constantly sick was 53.26 (50.15/1000 mean strength). The average sick time to each soldier was 8.30 days. The average duration of cases of sickness was 28.17 days.
The RA had the highest death rate in the command attributable to three deaths by violence out of hospital. An artillery men (sic) who had been missing for some days was found drowned. A soldier rolled off the top of St James' Cavalier, while sleeping on the roof of his barrack room. Cpl Samuel Merrylees bled to death from a severed external iliac artery when stabbed in the groin with a sword bayonet by a gunner. maltaramc.com/regmltgar/royalart.html
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