Career
Bergin was 22 years old, and a private in the 33rd Regiment of Foot, (The Duke of Wellington"s Regiment from 1881), British Army during the Abyssinia Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 13 April 1868 in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), during the assault on Magdala, when the head of the column of attack was checked by the obstacles at the gate, a small stream of officers and men of the 33rd Regiment and an officer the Royal Engineers broke away from the main approach to Magdala, and, reaching the defences, climbed a cliff, forced their way over a wall and through a strong and thorny fence, thus turning the defenders of the gateway. The first two men to enter Magdala were Private Bergin and Drummer Michael Magner. He died at Poona British India on 1 December 1880.
