Birth & early life
Born in the parish of St. Anthony’s, Worcester.
Enlistment
Enlisted at Worcester on the 9th of May 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5’ 7”.
Trade: Glover.
Fresh complexion. Blue eyes. Black hair.
Service, discharge & pension
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of August 1855.
He was shown on a nominal roll of men of the Regiment made out at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari on the 9th of November 1855 as being On Duty there from the 24th of October.
Transferred to the Military Train on the 30th of September 1856, with the Regtl. No. of 994, but was returned to the 13th Light Dragoons on the 4th of November 1856 as “being unsuitable”.
Transferred to the 17th Lancers at Newbridge on the 10th of September 1857. Regtl. No. 73.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. “Great Britain “ on the 8th of October 1857.
Served at Rajghur with Captain William Gordon.
Imprisoned “for absence” from the 15th of March - 25th of April 1864.
Discharged on the “Termination of limited engagement, from Aldershot on the 2nd of July 1866.
Medals & commemorations
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
Editor’s note:
The 1881 Census Returns show a man of this name as aged 46, born Worcester, a “Labourer (Gun factory)”. He was living at 5 Jones Place, Vauxhall Rd, Aston, Warwickshire, with his wife Eliza, two sons and two daughters, their ages being from 10 years to 12 months old.
Death & burial
Editor’s note:
The GRO records show Richard Bannister as dying in the Aston district aged 58 in the December quarter of 1893.
Photographs & illustrations
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