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1768, Private John HAYS / HAYES — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born c.1837.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 8th of January 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Dyer.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of June 1855.

Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of August 1857. Regimental No. 92.

Joined the Canterbury Depot from India on the 9th of January 1867.

Discharge & pension

Discharged from Canterbury "time expired", on the 25th of January 1867.

Conduct: "very good".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol,

Mutiny medal without clasp.

Served in the field in Oude, East Indies, 25th of March — 10th of October 1858, including the affair at Baree and the action of Newabgungee.

His name is shown as "Hayes" on some rolls.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Further medal information archived

Life after service

Death & burial


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