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1468 Peter CHRISTIE — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 5th of November 1854.

Age: 24.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

From the Newbridge Depot on the 14th of June 1855 and joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 9th of August. 25th of May 1855.

He is shown as one of the seventy other ranks, who under Captain James Naylor and two subalterns, were sent on the 29th of October 1855 to form the escort to General Simpson and to find all the orderlies for the various Divisions.

(This escort replaced that under Captain Chetwode, which had been escort to Lord Raglan, but had rejoined the regiment after the latter's death).

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

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from York on the 28th of June 1864.

Served 9 years 238 days.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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