title: Thomas Mckiernan, Experiences of a British Veteran Soldier (Port Talbot, Wales: Major Jones &amp; Co., 1892), PP. 18–19.
abstract: Thomas McKiernan was born in Granard, Longford in 1838. He joined the army in 1853, and became a colour sergeant in the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot. He served in Malta, the Crimea, Ceylon, New Zealand and Australia. McKiernan married twice and fathered ten children.