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Armed Forces / Re: Lookup offer for crimea casualty list and indian mutiny
« on: Tuesday 18 August 09 14:15 BST (UK) »
Hello Kev,
Thank you for your kind offer.
I am looking for information on Morville William Wraxall who served as an enlisted man in the 23rd Royal Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny. Bibliographic records of him from 40 years later suggest that he was seriously wounded at Lucknow is this true and when did he join and leave the regiment?
There is little doubt he was there around that time, he married out there in 1860 and his first son was born in Lucknow in 1862 and his first daugther in Agar in 1865.
Some years after returning to England he became the District Organising Agent of the Western Temperance League and went around the country giving lectures which included "Personal reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny" in which he recounted stories, and sang songs.
In 1891 he was in Australia and earned a living by giving this lecture as a popular entertainment show which also included pictures "Oxy-Hydrogen Lime-light scenes".
In 1882 he became Sir Morville William Wraxall 5th Bt. as his two elder brothers and titled uncle died childless.
Thank you for your kind offer.
I am looking for information on Morville William Wraxall who served as an enlisted man in the 23rd Royal Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny. Bibliographic records of him from 40 years later suggest that he was seriously wounded at Lucknow is this true and when did he join and leave the regiment?
There is little doubt he was there around that time, he married out there in 1860 and his first son was born in Lucknow in 1862 and his first daugther in Agar in 1865.
Some years after returning to England he became the District Organising Agent of the Western Temperance League and went around the country giving lectures which included "Personal reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny" in which he recounted stories, and sang songs.
In 1891 he was in Australia and earned a living by giving this lecture as a popular entertainment show which also included pictures "Oxy-Hydrogen Lime-light scenes".
In 1882 he became Sir Morville William Wraxall 5th Bt. as his two elder brothers and titled uncle died childless.