On 25/11/2015 20:26, Richard Smith wrote: > On 25/11/15 11:13, David Marshall wrote: > >> How long might it have taken to travel from Maryborough to Aberlour and >> back? > > Both towns had railway stations in 1876, and the rail network was > sufficiently advanced that they connected to the ports on the Irish Sea. > I'm sure the journey could have been done one way in three days, and > maybe two days if everything happened to fit together nicely. > > Richard Thanks for that - not such a trek as I had thought, even though it was the middle of winter! Also I have worked out how they might have met. A unit of the regiment spent several months at Fort George (near Inverness) instead of going directly from India to Ireland and so I assume that he might have been part of it. I am waiting to see if the Regimental Archives can throw any light on his actual movements. David