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Added 28.10.11. Minor edits 8.4.14.

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Private Frank HESLOP — 1648, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Erdington, Birmingham.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 7th of April 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Canterbury on the 6th of February 1857, upon payment of £30.

Served 2 years 43 days.

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

Next of kin (in 1854): Brother, James Heslop, living in London.

Medals

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

[RM: According to Census records, possibly Francis E Heslop, born Darlington, 1839.]

Life after service

Death & burial


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