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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
The E.J. Boys Archive

Amended 18.5.2011. Minor edits 17.2.2014.

1273, Private James HURLEY — 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born c.1828.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 9th of July 1846.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None shown.

Service

At Scutari General Hospital from the 22nd of September 1854 and sent to rejoin the regiment on the 20th of October.

One-time Hospital Orderly in the Crimea.

Died in the Regimental Hospital, Eupatoria, where he had been an orderly for the previous 32 days, on the 24th of November 1855.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.

Death & burial

Died in the Regimental Hospital, Eupatoria, where he had been an orderly for the previous 32 days, on the 24th of November 1855.


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