Malta and Turkey.
Crimean War.
Malta.

There is a considerable discrepancy in McCormack’s recorded birthdate – at least a five-year range.

The WO90 Court Martial register record does not mention his age; nor does the HO11 Transportation Register for Edwin Fox.
The prison records (PCOM & HO24]) for Millbank, Pentonville and Chatham (all in 1857) indicate that he was 26 years old, hence a birthdate of 1831.
The Convict Establishment record Acc 1156/R1 shows his age as 32 and there followed all Western Australian records.
Although we know of no injuries or medical conditions arising from McCormack’s service in the Crimean War, there are a number of Convict Establishment records of his medical issues.  These can be found in records digitised by ancestry.com.au, in its Card Catalogue under Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930, part of the ‘Court, Criminal, Land & Wills’ set of records.

McCormack could neither read nor write and his occupations would be found by waiting it out in the Colony’s Convict Hiring Depots in Perth, Fremantle, Bunbury and Toodyay. He worked as a labourer at Victoria Plains and Sussex and also as a General Servant.  It seems from his inquest that he had been a shepherd working in the north-west of the State.