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1186, Private William WALLS — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Hounslow on the 17th of August 1851.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Shooting Star" on the 23rd of April 1854.

Rejoined the regiment from Scutari on the 11th of May 1855, and where he had been since the 18th of December 1854.

Served with the detchment of the regiment under Lt. Colonel De Salis in the Expedition to Kertch on the 22nd of May 1855.

From Private to Corporal: 14th of April 1856.

Reduced to Private, by a Regimental Court-martial on the 25th of November 1856. Transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards at Dundalk on the 31st of December 1856. Regimental No. 245.

From Private to Corporal: 17th of July 1857.

The Mutiny roll of the regiment shows him as being "killed-in-action" at Animghur, India. (No date is shown, but it was the 21st of September 1858.)

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.

Mutiny medal without clasp.

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

There is a photograph of this medal [?] in the 8th Hussar file.

Further detailed medal information archived.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial

The Mutiny roll of the regiment shows him as "killed-in-action" at Animghur, India. (No date is shown, but it was the 21st of September 1858.)


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