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1013, Corporal Joseph BUSHMAN — 17th Lancers

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 1st of September 1849.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None shown.

Service

From Private to Corporal: 1st of June 1854.

Corporal to Sergeant: 11th of December 1854.

Sent to Scutari, 14th of December 1854.

Died at Scutari on the 10th of January 1855.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol.

A roll was published in the "Balaclava Commemoration Number" of the 17th/21st Lancers Regimental Journal in 1854 claiming to list all those of the regiment who had ridden in the Charge. A "Corporal J. Bushman" was named among these.


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