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Enlisted at Birmingham on the 18th of January 1855.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 5".
Trade: None shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of June 1855.
A nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, shows him as being On Duty there from the 21st of October.
At the Riding Establishment at Maidstone from the 27th of September 1860 until the 17th of June 1861.
From Private to Corporal: 6th of December 1860.
Corporal to Sergeant: 11th of June 1865.
Appointed Orderly Room Clerk from the 24th of June 1865 and ranking as a Troop Sergeant Major from the 1st of August 1867.
[Source: Wikimedia: HMS_Serapis_troop_ship_1866._No.758.jpg. According the Royal Museums Greenwich, this appears to be the "The Yacht of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, during his visit to India 1875-76".]
Embarked for India aboard the troopship "Serapia" [PB: "Serapis"?] on the 15th of October 1867.
Promoted to Quarter-Master Sergeant on the 4th of May 1874.
Died at Rawalpindi, India, on the 10th of January 1878.
Next of kin: Wife, Mary Boulter.
He was on the Regimental "married roll" from the 10th of April 1867 and by the 31st of March 1875 they had two children:
Henry Rowland, born on the 15th of November 1867.
Charles John, born on the 22nd of December 1873.
Another child, Ellen Mary, died at Meerut, India, aged 6 months, on the 13th of July 1872 and was buried in the Cantonment Cemetery at Meerut.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
He was awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 12th of July 1875 with a gratuity of £5.
Not recorded by Lunmis and Wynn.
The India Office records show him as dying of "Bronchitis" at Rawalpindi [near modern Islamabad, Pakistan] on the 10th of January 1878, aged 42 years, and buried there on the 11th of January by the Revd. W.F. Armstrong, Chaplain.
[PB: Wendy Leahy has located the burial list for "Rawal Pindie" [sic?] in this period. This confirms the dates given above, but gives the cause of HB's death as "Pulmonary Apoplexy" (i.e. a massive bleeding from the lungs) not Bronchitis. Bronchitis is given as cause in three other deaths nearby in the list. Is the prevalence of bronchitis surprising? It is mid-winter and the weather appears to be much like London's. The elevation is about 500m.]
[Wikipedia: Rawalpindi: "The city was conquered by the British Raj in 1849, and in 1851 became the largest garrison town for the British Indian Army."]
He was buried in the Harley Street Cemetery at Rawal Pindi.
A survey in 1982 recorded a gravestone to him, the inscription being noted as:
"In loving memory of Henry Boulter, Sergeant, 4th Queen's Own Hussars. Died 10 Jul [illeg.]".
[EJB: Probably because of the year being illegible a mistake was also made in the month as well.]
According to EJB's original notes, Henry Boulter's widow Mary married a Troop Sergeant Major John Brown of the regiment at Muttra, India, on the 20th of September 1878.
[PB: Since there was no obvious candidate for "TSM John Brown", in April 2020 Wendy Leahy (ShadowsofTime) sought further details of this marriage. She discovered that Mary Boulter (widowed daughter of John Joblin) married not a John but a Peter Brown (bachelor son of Edward Brown): "Just checked the Indian marriages and have attached the copy. It turns out it was Peter Brown, No. 531, I suspect. He was Irish, joined in 1860 in Dublin aged 18, and at the point of being posted to India was a Sergeant. That's about all I have for him. No births of children, or deaths for either of them, are jumping out at the moment, but will have a closer look." I am very grateful to her for this information.]
