Career
Foreign the Acting of Bravery recorded in a General Order, issued by the Commander-in-Chief in India, of which the following is a copy:
HeadQuarters, Allahabad, June 29, 1858. " GENERAL ORDER. Private Patrick Carlin, Number. 3611, of the 13th Foot, for rescuing, on the 6th of April, 1858, a wounded Naick of the 4th Madras Rifles, in the field of battle, after killing, with the Naick"s sword, a mutineer sepoy, who fired at him whilst bearing off his wounded comrade on his shoulders.
(Signed) C. CAMPBELL, General, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.
He died in the Belfast Union Infirmary on 11 May 1895, and was buried in the Friar"s Bush graveyard on Stranmillis Road, Belfast. He has no memorial. The Board of Guardians Minute Book records that he died of exhaustion at the age of 60 on 11 May 1895.
Although he is believed to be buried in Friar"s Bush graveyard, there is a view that his grave might be in one of the two sections of the old Donegall Road (Blackstaff Road) graveyard. Now taken over by new housing and the Arellian Nursery ground.
