Background
Doyle was born at Birr, County Offaly, Ireland, about 1828 and died at Liverpool, England in August 1892.
Doyle was born at Birr, County Offaly, Ireland, about 1828 and died at Liverpool, England in August 1892.
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.
He was a member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society, made up of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade of 1854.