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Private John MURPHY — 1779, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born in London, c.1836.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 25th of November 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

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

Transferred to the 8th Hussars at Hounslow on the 28th of February 1857. Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.

From Private to Corporal: 4th of January 1858.

Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of November 1859.

Died at Meerut, India, on the 17th of August 1861.

The India Office records show him as having died of "diarrhoea" at Meerut on the 17th of September 1861, aged 25 years. He was buried on the same day by the Revd. E.W. Rotten, Chaplain.

(His name is recorded on a memorial placed on a wall of St. John's Garrison Church at Meerut. (See record of 879 Thomas Hanrahan, 8th Hussars.)

Medals

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

Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.

Served at Kotah, 22nd — 30th of March and at Gwalior, 19th — 23rd of June 1858.

Further medal information archived.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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