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1559 John BODHILL.

Enlisted on the 9th of January 1855.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of May 1855.

Sent to the Depot at Canterbury when the regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign. 1st of October 1857.

Joined the regiment in India, landing at Bombay, on the 26th of April 1858.

Died at Meerut, India, on the 12th of June 1861.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Further information

The India Office records show him as dying from "chronic hepatitis" at Meerut on the 12th of June 1861, aged 32 years. He was buried on the 13th of June by the Revd. J.G.W. Rotten, Chaplain, in the Cantonment Cemetery.

Life after service

Death & burial


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