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1619, Private Joseph GOSLING — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Leamington by the 7th Hussars for the 8th, on the 7th of January 1855.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Embarked on the 24th of May and joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of June 1855.

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

Died at Neimuch, India, on the 11th of November 1860.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.

Served at Kotah.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Death & burial

Died at Neimuch, India, on the 11th of November 1860.

The India Office records show him as dying of "Febris Inter." [Meaning? Intermittent Fever?] at Neimuch on the 12th of November 1860, aged 30 years [sic]. He was buried on the same day by the Revd. Ward Maule, Asst. Chaplain.


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