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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
The E.J. Boys Archive

Added 28.10.11. Minor edits 8.4.14.

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Private John HENNON — 1712, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted on the 20th of July 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Life after service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, on the "Reduction of the Regiment", from Canterbury on the 20th of November 1856.

Served 2 years 139 days.

Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.

Awarded a Special Campaign Pension. No date is shown [RM: but likely to be around 1893).

Commemorations

Life after service

1861 Census, 1871 Census

A man of this name, born at Prestwich, Lancs, appears on the 1861 and 1871 Census records as living in Salford. His occupation is shown as "Dyer". [RM]

[PB: Add detailed information.]

Death & burial


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