[1] He was a 21 years old sergeant in the 13th Light Dragoons, British Army, during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 25 October 1854 at Balaclava, Crimean Peninsula during the Charge of the Light Brigade, Sergeant Malone, while returning on foot from the charge, in which his horse had been shot, stopped under very heavy fire and helped a troop sergeant-major (John Berryman) and other sergeant (John Farrell) to move a very severely wounded officer (who subsequently died) out of range of the guns.

[3] After service in India and Ireland,[1] in 1881 he along with other riding masters was granted the honorary rank of Captain.

[1] Malone died at Pinetown on 28 June 1883, and was buried in the small cemetery in what was the old St Andrews churchyard.

An account of his funeral reads: "His body was brought from the Rugby Hotel on a gun carriage drawn by soldiers, his horse led in front of it, his boots hanging reversed from the saddle, with his sword and knapsack rolled on it, the helmet resting on the coffin.