Afghanistan 1878
Lieut. G. Shields, 1/12th Regt.
B. Carlisle 1839, son of an Irish labourer, enl. 1856 , 85th soon transf. to the 85th.
Corpl. 1858 , Sergeant 1860, Col. Sergeant 1863, Pay.. Mr. Sergeant 1868, commd. 1872, having seen service with the 6th. in the Indian Mutiny and against the hill tribes in 1868 to h.p. Captain 1/12th 1880.
The London Gazette of 25th October, 1898 records Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel G. Shields, Army Pay Department retired. Dated 12th October, 1898. (presumably same man)
A fine career
A remarkable American Boat Service, clasp 14 December 1814, with 1st class Order of Ferdinand of Spain, Lieutenant , Royal Marines. Present In the boats in the attack on the American ships on Lake Borgne. One of the 100 Marine detachment at the battle of New Orleans and wounded in the head by a musket ball during the successful attack and the capture of the American guns on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, 8Jan. 1815. Shipwrecked off Campeachy , Gulf of Mexico, aboard HMS Tay in 1816 and taken prisoner by the Spanish Navy . Commanded a company of the Royal Marine battalion present during the Carlist War in 1836-1837 where the Marines were actively engaged especially at the battle of Hernani and awarded the order of Ferdinand 




