FusilierMuseumLondon | Colonel Shipley's Musket Ball, 1854

Colonel Shipley's Musket Ball, 1854

    Object number

    RFM.873

    Object name

    Shot (Ammunition)

    Description

    Colonel Shipley was shot in the leg whilst serving with the Royal Fusiliers in the Crimean War. He wrote to his mother; ”Hit at last, my dear Mamma, like a Woodcock in the thigh! I am very comfortable in our Tent. The Ball kindly came out on the other side. I have preserved it, I hope to bring it home.” Shipley later had the musket ball mounted as a souvenir! Musket balls were used as ammunition until c. 1870.

    Production date

    5.11.1854

    Associated Person

    Maj. Gen. Reginald Youge Shipley C.B.

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