OC .. Peter's ancestor John McCrohon was a boy soldier (his father was in the regiment) he was supposedly enlisted to look after the horses and then became a drummer. After service in Europe, UK and Ireland, went to Barbados and then to Aus. I have his pension papers and he was not entitled to any pension until he came of age and only half entitlement when he was in Barbados, but when he came to Aus, he was entitled to full pension .. after all that he died from the effects of a fall from a horse aged 39!! ..