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Private James EVANS — 1879, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born in Lambeth, London.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 12th of January 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: Servant.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

Transferred to the 17th Lancers on the 1st of September 1857. Regimental No. 142.

Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 9th of February 1867.

Discharged, on the "expiration of limited term of engagement", from Aldershot on the 9th of February 1867.

Next of kin (in 1867): Wife, Emma Evans.

To live in London after discharge.

Medals

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

Mutiny medal without clasp. "Duplicate sent" — not shown when.

Served in the field at Raghur with Captain William Gordon.

A request was sent by the War Office to the East India Company's medallists: "that he be supplied with a replacement Indian Mutiny medal (without clasp) at the public expense." The medal was sent to the Treasury on the 26th of April 1865.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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