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Private William JULIAN — 1281, 17th Lancers

Birth & early life

Born at Bury, near Huntingdon, c.1823.

Enlistment

Enlisted into the 7th Hussars at Brighton on the 8th of November 1843. Regimental No. 881.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None.

Features: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.

Service

From Private to Corporal: 21st of March 1847.

Corporal to Sergeant: 9th of September 1850.

Transferred to the 17th Lancers at Edinburgh on the 1st of August 1854 as a "Volunteer".

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.

Divisional Storekeeper at Scutari from the 1st of July 1855.

Shown on a nominal roll of officers and men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, as being On Duty there from the 4th of November.

Discharge & pension

Discharged from Dublin on the 13th of June 1857, as "Unfit for further service. — Invalided from rheumatism caused by exposure at Eneid on the 14th of January 1856. Not aggravated by vice or intemperance. Conduct in hospital "good".

Served 13 years 217 days.

In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year.

Conduct: "very good."

In possession of one Good Conduct badge when promoted and would now have had two if not.

Aged 33 years 7 months on discharge.

Granted 10d. per day "conditional" pension from the 21st of June 1861 and this was made 9d. per day "permanent" from the 8th of July 1862.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.

Commemorations

Life after service

Lived in the Cambridge District on discharge.

Death & burial

Died in the King's Lynn Pension District on the 2nd of February 1869.


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