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This the medal roll, which shows his return to England in Jan 1881 and discharge in March 1881, which matches the 1st document for discharge date.

The link here, lists the attachment where I found the Canada comment. It re-affirms what I thought, that he wasn't in Canada at all it's just Ancestry's bad labelling. I'll check the WO25's you have listed above, hopefully I can find some more details there. Thanks Ellie 7 for your assistance. TBA

He is Richard Cook born 1851 Aston Birmingham. His medal has his service number as 27B/486, with the 17th Foot 1st Bn. But the record I found recently just had the 486.

Thanks for that Steve. I’ll have a close look through the link. What do you mean by FMP? It’s not an acronym i reconise. As far as travelling, he was born in, died in and all his family were and are still in B’ham. I’ve already looked at who was where in the Empire in the time period and there...

Hoping someone can assist me with a couple of question about British military info in the Victorian conflicts. I have a family member who I know was in Afghanistan (Kyber pass) in 1878-1881. I have recently come across another military document that raises a few questions for me. The online...