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1264, Private James SYLVESTER — 17th Lancers

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 21st of June 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Brighton on the 29th of April 1855.

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

The musters for July-September 1858 show him "On Field Service" during the whole of this period.

Served in the field at Rajghur and Mungrowlee with Captain William Gordon.

Medals & commemorations

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

Mutiny medal without clasp.

The Returned Medal Book shows "Mutiny medal returned to the Mint. No trace of issue."

Death & burial

Died at Gwalior, India, on the 6th of July 1859.

He is shown in the India Office records as having died aged 24 years at Gwalior on the 6th of July 1858 from "Ictus Solis" [i.e. sunstroke]. He was buried on the same day by the Revd. E.W. Tarlton, Chaplain.


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