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

Added 25.11.12. Minor edits 7.4.14.

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1952 Albert HARPUR — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Bury.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 8th of March 1855.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Millwright.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Dublin on the 15th of November 1860. Payment of £30.

Served 5 years 43 days.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of one Good Conduct badge.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941 Samuel Briggs.

Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855 but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Eupatoria during the month of October of that sane year... Camp Aldershot. 16th of November 1857.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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