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Private Thomas MUNDY — 1124, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born in Marylebone, London, c.1823.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Hounslow on the 23rd of February 1842.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Servant.

Appearance: Fair complexion.

Service

1851 Census

Thomas Mundy, 28, Private, born London, Middlesex.

Pockthorpe Cavalry Barracks, Norwich.

From Private to Corporal: 11th of May 1853.

Corporal to Sergeant: 10th of May 1854.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

At the General Depot, Scutari, from the 20th of August and invalided to England aboard the "Sir George Pollock" on the 7th of September 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged from the Chatham Invalid Depot on the 27th of November 1855, as:

"Unfit for further service from impaired use of lower jaw produced by fracture when falling from his horse on the 11th of July 1855. The accident happened at Scutari, and he was in hospital, during July and August."

Conduct: "good", although once tried by a Regimental Court-martial for "being absent from watch-setting", being imprisoned from the 28th of May — 12th of July 1848.

In possession of one Good Conduct badge when promoted.

Granted a pension of 10d. per day.

To live in Little Suffolk Street, Borough Road, London, after discharge, but he lived in King's Lynn, Lincoln and Nottingham between November of 1855 and the end of 1861.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial

Died in the No. 1 London Pension District on the 27th of December 1863.

References & acknowledgements

Census information for 1851 kindly provided by Chris Poole.


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