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that the Eighty-Fifth in his humble opinion did not surpass the bravery of the 
late second battalion Sixty-Second Regiment on that occasion, and as an illus- 
tration of their gallantry he begs to relate the following anecdote of three brave 
soldiers of the Sixty-Second Regiment, which occurred at the battle of the 
‘‘ Nive.’ One of them, a young lad named O’Brien, who volunteered with 
memorialist from the County Limerick Regiment of Militia, stood in the centre 
of his company, when a cannon shot came and took both his legs off, together 
with three legs off the two men on his right and left. When the brave young 
soldier fell he addressed his comrades, with a smile on his countenance :—‘‘ I 
‘shall go home to old Ireland to dig Murphys again.” But the hand of death 
was then upon him, as himself and his two comrades bled to death that night 
before they could receive surgical attendance, and their ashes now lie on the 
field of Hona [Horn] on the ‘‘ Pyrenees Mountains,” in the front of Bayonne, 
together with many a gallant comrade ; as also memorialist’s illustrious country- 
man, Lt.-Col. Lloyde, a native of Rath Keale, county of Limerick, who 
gallantly fell at the head of the Eighty-Fourth Regiment while endeavouring 
to drive back the French who sallied out of Bayonne, on the morning of the 
10th December, 1813. 
The second anecdote is related to a soldier named Conolly. A shell dropped 
opposite the company in which he was a supernumary non-commissioned officer. 
Conolly gallantly advanced, coolly took the shell between both his hands, with 
the fuse nearly burnt out, and hurled it with all his might down the mountaia 
side, thereby saving the lives of many of his comrades to the very great risk of 
his own. Memorialist begs to remark that this is not the only instance in 
which a soldier of the Sixty-Second Regiment acted in a similar manner with a 
‘shell. A detachment of Major Hull’s company, Sixty-Second Regiment occupied 
Sheela (Seylla ?) Castle, on the coast of Calabria, when a Shell was thrown by the 
French on the ramparts of the castle amidst a group of the soldiers of the 
Sixty-Second Regiment. It was immediately seized and thrown over the 
ramparts by Private John Hickey. Memorialist acted as a pay-sergeant of 
Major Hull’s company in 1819. The year that Hickey was discharged he heard 
this anecdote related by several non-commissioned officers and men of the com- 
pany, and as memorialist is now treating of the first battalion, Sixty-Second 
Regiment, he begs to state that in consequence of the sergeant-major of the 
Sixty-Second Regiment being an illiterate man, he was appointed regimental 
clerk, as will appear from the following certificate, which he received from his 
‘townsman, the late Major Parker, Sixty-Second Regiment, who lately died at 
“Bangalore, and who was for many years adjutant of the Sixty-Second regiment: 
(copy.) “ Templemore, 15th December, 1824. 
“This is to certify that Sergeant James Sullivan acted as regimental clerk in the orderly room 
under my charge since the month of July, 1819, and that I invariably found him extremely atten- 
_ tive and correct in his duty, and consider that there are few better clerks in the British Army, 
(Signed) EpwarpD PARKER, 
Late Adjutant Sixty-Second Regiment. 
That memorialist having the charge of the records and other documents of 
the Sixty- -Second Regiment, he thereby became acquainted with their achieve- 
ments in different parts of the globe, 
