Note 398 — 1841.

‘United Service Journal,’ iii., 1841, p. 563. Carlin became a colour-sergeant, and prior to his discharge had served at Gibraltar and Malta, Turkey and the Crimea. When at Portsmouth, he received from Lord Frederick Fitzclarence a gold pen and engineering pencil-case, in return “for his most useful services in carrying out instruction in musketry, in which he proved himself to be exceedingly clever in calculations of a rather puzzling nature, and to be a most zealous, active, and painstaking non-commissioned officer.”