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When he enlisted at the age of twenty two at Leeds in 1871 he was 5ft 6ins and his religion at entry was Roman Catholic. He stayed in Yorkshire for the first sixteen months and was then posted to the East Indies on the 24th October 1872 on duty for the East India Company in India. He stayed in India until February 1884 where he was then posted to the Soudan for active service involved with General Gordon's campaign at Khartoum.
He spent two months in the Soudan and was then posted to the army barracks at Armagh. Here he rose to the position of Quartermaster for the barracks and was promoted to Colour Sergeant 15th December 1896.
He was finally discharged after a total service of 27 years 266 days aged 49 years 4 months on 25th February 1899. He had then grown to 5ft 7ins and was described as having a fresh complexion, brown eyes, and dark brown hair. This description exactly fits my grandfather, my father, his sisters and myself, in fact all the Cullens didn't start to go grey until their mid fifties and none went bald.
During his Army Career he earned the following medal entitlement:-
He married fairly late in life, after he had been in Armagh for about seven years, to Matilda Robinson at St Mark's Parish Church, Armagh on the 14th July 1891. When he was discharged from the Army his intended place of residence was to be Barrack Hill, Armagh where he intended to persue the trade of Master Shoemaker.
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