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1300 Gilbert BROWN — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 3rd of May 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 13th of May 1855.

Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.

Died at Nusserabad, India, on the 13th of July 1859.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.

Served at Kotah.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Further information

He is shown in the India Office records as dying at Nusserabad on the 13th of July 1859 of "Dysentery and abcess of the Jacoris," aged 32 years. He was buried on the same day by the Revd. C.J. Williams, Asst. Chaplain.

Life after service

Death & burial


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