RESEARCH NOTES
 

Hugh Conroy was born at Burris, Queen’s County, Ireland, and enlisted into the 44th Foot on 13 September 1806, aged 18, a Brogue Maker by trade. He served with the 2nd Battalion in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, but was transferred afterwards to the 1st Battalion before being discharged to pension from the Kilmainham Hospital on 29 May 1816. The admission book states that he was suffering from a ‘fractured olecranon [elbow] & partial dislocation, and slightly wounded at Waterloo’.