John Doyle

Background

Doyle was born at Birr, County Offaly, Ireland, about 1828 and died at Liverpool, England in August 1892.

Career

Doyle enlisted in the British Cavalry at Newbridge, Ireland in 1850. He rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava and survived, lightly wounded but not captured.

Achievements

• Doyle fought at four major Crimean War battles: Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol. He was a member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society, made up of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade of 1854. In Manchester in 1877 he published a memoir of his service titled A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava.

Membership

He was a member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society, made up of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade of 1854.