Crimea pair, depot named to the Royal Artillery

[dante]

George Titmuss (AKA Titmus)
Depot named Crimea war medal clasp Sebastopol and named “La Crimee” Turkish war medal.
George was born in 1832 • Pirton, Hertfordshire, England. He was baptized on March 25, 1832 in St Mary the Virgin Pirton.
His father died in 1844, he left school and worked as a straw plaiter and labourer employed at Wellbury Farm, Offley by a farmer Thomas Smoothy and in 1853 he was caught stealing and received 6 months in prison on release he enlisted into the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
In 1854 he deployed to the Crimea  to take part in the siege of Sebastopol with Number 7 Company 6th Battalion Royal Artillery under Captain John Boothby (Later Major General & First class cricketer), George served 6 months in the Crimea was wounded/injured following an explosion of a Magazine in the trenches surrounding Sebastopol (most likely at French Park on the 15th November 1855), he remained in the army and married in 1862 to Harriet Carew PETERS at the citadel barracks Plymouth, went on to serve on Alderney in the Channel Islands then five years in Gibraltar and one year in Agra India (most likely with 7 Battery 22 Brigade RFA).
I was here his wife Harriet and youngest baby Alice died and were buried in 1871.
Having served 17 years, he was pensioned due to disability aged 40 as a danger to himself and others undertaking gun drill due to age and injuries in the Crimea.
He appears to have gone of the rails on leaving the army, fighting, larceny, common assault, resulting in periods of prison and hard labour 
He remarried in 1874 to Eliza HARMER and they lived at St. Ippollitts, Hertfordshire, England.
In 1901 aged 70 he is noted as an Army pensioner living in Ardeley, Eliza his wife died in 1911 and George died in 1912 aged 80.
He received a military funeral which was held at Hitchen and noted in the local paper as a veteran of the Crimean war.
Note…George was an undoubted rogue who lived a long and hard life, his medals have for over 150 years stayed together and certainly worn by George most likely on his coat long into his retirement and I dare say down the pub to regal the locals and to get his beer bought for him.

[Farkas]

On 14/06/2023 at 00:28, dante said:

George Titmuss (AKA Titmus)
Depot named Crimea war medal clasp Sebastopol and named “La Crimee” Turkish war medal.
George was born in 1832 • Pirton, Hertfordshire, England. He was baptized on March 25, 1832 in St Mary the Virgin Pirton.
His father died in 1844, he left school and worked as a straw plaiter and labourer employed at Wellbury Farm, Offley by a farmer Thomas Smoothy and in 1853 he was caught stealing and received 6 months in prison on release he enlisted into the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
In 1854 he deployed to the Crimea  to take part in the siege of Sebastopol with Number 7 Company 6th Battalion Royal Artillery under Captain John Boothby (Later Major General & First class cricketer), George served 6 months in the Crimea was wounded/injured following an explosion of a Magazine in the trenches surrounding Sebastopol (most likely at French Park on the 15th November 1855), he remained in the army and married in 1862 to Harriet Carew PETERS at the citadel barracks Plymouth, went on to serve on Alderney in the Channel Islands then five years in Gibraltar and one year in Agra India (most likely with 7 Battery 22 Brigade RFA).
I was here his wife Harriet and youngest baby Alice died and were buried in 1871.
Having served 17 years, he was pensioned due to disability aged 40 as a danger to himself and others undertaking gun drill due to age and injuries in the Crimea.
He appears to have gone of the rails on leaving the army, fighting, larceny, common assault, resulting in periods of prison and hard labour 
He remarried in 1874 to Eliza HARMER and they lived at St. Ippollitts, Hertfordshire, England.
In 1901 aged 70 he is noted as an Army pensioner living in Ardeley, Eliza his wife died in 1911 and George died in 1912 aged 80.
He received a military funeral which was held at Hitchen and noted in the local paper as a veteran of the Crimean war.
Note…George was an undoubted rogue who lived a long and hard life, his medals have for over 150 years stayed together and certainly worn by George most likely on his coat long into his retirement and I dare say down the pub to regal the locals and to get his beer bought for him.

A proper character behind these, the story of a tough old fella, congrats 👍👍

 

tony 🍻