WILLIAM NUTT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
SURNAME:Nutt
FORENAMES:William
BORN:.
AT:Canterbury
OCCUPATION[S]:Clerk
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MOTHER:.
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NOTES:.
1st REGIMENT NO:1133
2nd REGIMENT NO:.
ENLISTED:23 06 1841 London
ATTESTED:01 07 1841
HEIGHT AT ENLISTMENT:.
TROOP NO:May 1846: Troop B (10th Hussars)
1850: Troop B (10th Hussars)
TROOP CAPTAIN:.
RANK:1841-1842: Private
1846: Private
1850: Private (10th Hussars)
PROMOTIONS:.
REDUCTIONS: .
NOTES:31 03 1842 From Depot Maidstone [to Regiment]
DESERTIONS:.
COURT MARTIALS:11 02 1850 at Kirkee (10th Hussars)
05 01 1852 at Kirkee (10th Hussars)
27 01 1852 at Kirkee (10th Hussars)
28 05 1853 at Kirkee (10th Hussars)
17 06 1853 at Kirkee (10th Hussars)
26 01 1854 at Kirkee (10th Hussars)
GIVEN UP TO:.
GOOD CONDUCT BADGES:.
MEDALS:.
EMBARKATIONS:05 05 1846 Larkins England, under command of Colonel Vandeleur, 10th Hussars
DISEMBARKATIONS:22 08 1846 Larkins Bombay India, under command of Colonel Vandeleur, 10th Hussars
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TRANSFERRED FROM:.
TRANSFERRED TO:10th Hussars Hounslow 01 04 1846
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DIED:.
BURIED:.
WILL:.
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PRIZE MONEY:.
NOTES:.
TNA SOURCES:WO/12/651-652
WO/12/654
WO/86/6
WO/86/7
BL SOURCES:.
OTHER SOURCES:United Services Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, Volume 137, 1875 Part One: Historical Records of the Services of the Tenth, or, Prince of Wales' Own Royal Regiment of Hussars
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Historical Records of the Services of the Tenth, or, Prince of Wales' Own Royal Regiment of Hussars
`...The cholera, around June 1850... But the most wonderful case of all was that of Private William Nutt of B troop, who was actually carried out to the dead-house, the apothecary who was in charge of the hospital at the time believing him to be dead. This was about eight o'clock on the Thursday evening, and about two o'clock on the following morning the man partly came to himself, and getting up from off the boards he had been laid out upon, went to the door, and seeing the sentry standing with his back towards him, said in his half-dazed state, `Sentry, what time is it?' The sentinel over the dead-house - Private Turrill, of D troop - was a man not easily terrified, in fact he was looked upon as one of the best boxers in the corps; but on this occasion, when taken so completely by surprise on hearing `the dead' speak, he dropped his carbine and ran towards the guardroom, meeting the corporal and a man coming to relieve him. To them he told this extraordinary tale, which, however, would not have been credited, had not the body of Private Nutt been missed from the dead-house, and he found alive in hospital, having ran through the gate and back to his old bed in the ward that he had been carried out of. Nutt likewise recovered, although it was said at the time, that had not the native dresser (who received a rupee for preparing each corpse for the `post-mortem examination' always held on the bodies of deceased soldiers) been away that night on leave, Nutt would by that worthy have been put past recovery in less than an hour after he had been taken to the mortuary...'





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