James Pym

Military Person

1852 – 1893

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Who was James Pym?

Private James Pym was a British-born soldier in the U.S. Army who served with the 7th U.S. Cavalry during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. He was one of twenty-four men who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry, Pym being among those who volunteered to carry water from the Little Bighorn River to wounded soldiers on Reno Hill, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.

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Born
1852
Oxfordshire
Died
Dec 6, 1893
Miles City

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on July 23, 2013

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