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1172 William CHAPMAN — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Westminster on the 11th of July 1851.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: None shown.

Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 25th of May 1853 and sentenced to 112 days imprisonment.

Service

Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Echunga" on the 12th of April 1854.

He is shown as being at the Scutari Depot during October of 1854 and being returned to the regiment from the 9th of November 1854.

Invalided to Scutari, and then to England, on the 25th of April 1855.

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

Died at Mount Abo Sanitorium, India, on the 20th of March 1858.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.

Lummis and Wynn state, "No clasps" for the Crimean medal.

Further information

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The India Office records show him as dying from "Varolia" (Smallpox) at Mount Abo on the 20th of March 1858, aged 26 years. He was buried on the same day by the officer commanding, Captain John Atkinson.

Life after service

Death & burial


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