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679, Private Richard LAW — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born c.1822.<.p>

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 6th of April 1840.

Age 18.

Height: 5' 6." None shown.

Service

Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Shooting Star" on the 25th of April 1854.

Rejoined the regiment in the Crimea from Scutari on the 11th of May 1855, and where he had been since the 14th of February 1855.

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

From Private to Corporal: 16th of February 1858.

Death & burial

Died at Nusserabad, India, on the 1st of October, 1858.

Entitled (according to the medal rolls) to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol. He does not appear on the Balaclava clasp roll, but there is the usual "B" for Balaclava by the side of his entitlement on the Alma/Inkerman roll

Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.

Served at Kotah.

Further medal information archived

Death & burial

The India Office records show him as dying of "Acute Dysentery" at Nusserabad on the 1st of October 1858.

Two children are shown in the Army Chaplain's Baptismal Registers as having been born to him and his wife (name unknown): Richard, in Dublin in 1848 and William (no place shown, but probably Brighton or Hampton Court) in 1851.

Life after service

Death & burial


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