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907 Michael CAMPBELL — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 22nd of September 1845.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.

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

Died at Camp Sarthul

In India: on the 29th of April 1858.

Medals & commemorations

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

Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.

Served at Kotah.

His Crimean medal with four clasps and impressed naming to "M. Campbell. 8th Hussars." was sold from the "Major John Tombs" collection at a Glendining's auction on the 7th of February 1919, on the 20th of March 1919 and again on the 11th of November 1921 and the 20th of December 1926.

The Returned medal book states: "Mutiny medal returned to the Mint." No trace of issue.

Further information

His Crimean medal, with four clasps, was known to be in an English collection in 1987.

Life after service

Death & burial


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