Biography:
1. William Welch was an Occasional Labourer in the Engineers' Department earning 2/8d per day for a six-day-week (WO54/512 dated September 1812).
2. WO54/516 dated February 1816 confirmed Welch was an Occasional Labourer earning 2/8d per day in the Engineers' Department, and that he was a 19-year-old bachelor living in Waltham Abbey.