| Surname: | Coyle |
| Initials: | T |
| Rank: | Corporal |
| Army Number: | 270 |
| Notes: | MMP. 16/11/80 enlisted 63 Brigade No. 2628, later 3 Royal Irish Rifles, No. 5785. 24/11/88 transferred to MMP. Enlisted 16/11/80 age 18 years, occupation Labourer, born Kilkurry, Dundalk, Co Louth. Served home 16/11/80 to 2/11/81, Bermuda 18/2/81 to 2/11/83, Nova Scotia 3/11/83 to 29/10/86, Gibraltar 30/10/86 to 26/12/87, Egypt 17/12/87 to 10/4/92, Home 17/4/92 17/2/99 to discharge after 18 years. 25/10/97 tried by DCM uttering a false document. awarded 84 days imprisonment. 31/1/99 returned to Royal Irish Regiment. 17/8/92 married Martha Bell at Farnborough, Hants. 22/5/00 re enlisted age 38.2 years, occupation boiler maker, in the Royal Reserve Regiment to 23/5/00 Thomas Coyle. Extract from the Evening News 6 August 1895. PORTSMOUTH POLICE COURT. Groping in an hotel bedroom. - Thomas Lane, 39, was charged with entering a bedroom at North's Hotel, St George's Road with intent to steal. Mr B Kent prosecuted. On the 29th ult. Mr Frank Mitchell, hairdresser, of 135, High Street while talking to Corporal T. Coyle, of the Military Mounted Police, saw the prisoner sitting upon the hotel window, which faces Warblington Street and after seeing him lift eh window and enter, information was given to the boot. The prisoner came back again into the street, when he was lodged at the main guardroom opposite. John Harman, the boots, stated that when he entered the bedroom by the door he saw the prisoner groping over the bed, but he disappeared as soon as he was disturbed. Prisoner, who alleged that he had been drinking all day and had no recollection of what occurred, was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions on the charge of housebreaking. |