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Superb 80th Foot Staffordshire Volunteers campaign medal group
Private Henry Bundy served for 9 years 305 days. During his service he spent just in excess of 2 years in the Straits Settlements, 3 years in China and 3 years 3 months in the Cape. His discharge papers confirm both medals and clasps.
His papers record that he was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire and was a bricklayer by trade when he attested in 1870, aged 19 years.
Medals – India General Service Medal 1854 with Perak clasp (1728 PTE. H. BUNDAY. 80TH. FOOT), South Africa 1879 with 1878-9 clasp (1728 PTE. H. BUNDAY. 80TH. FOOT.). Note – service papers and rolls all spell his name as Bunday, a common and simple spelling mistake that Bundy would not even have realised.
80th Foot Staffordshire Volunteers medal
80th Foot Staffordshire Volunteers medal
80th Foot Staffordshire Volunteers medal
Research has revealed that Henry Bundy was, in fact, Eli Henry James Bundy of Butlock’s Heath, Netley, Hampshire. The obituary below gives decisive clues to the real detail of Bundy as in being an old soldier of the Staffordshire Regiemnt and being a “brickmaker” by trade.
The 1901 census has the entry for Eli Bundy as – Eli H J Bundy Head Married Male 48 1853 Brickyard foreman Shirley, Hampshire, England. Notably his wife, Kate, is recorded as being married in Basingstoke, Hampshire which gives a logical and understandable reason for his place of birth being given as Basingstoke when in fact it was in Shirley, Hampshire
Obituary Hampshire Advertiser 14th December 1929 – The funeral of a well-known resident, Mr. Eli Henry James Mundy (79), of 27 Butlock’s Heath, took place at Hound Churchyard. Deceased was an old soldier, who served in the Staffordshire Regiment in the Zulu War. He had lived in Butlock Heath for 40 years, and for a considerable time was employed in the late Mr. Cole’s brick yard.
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