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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Added 25.11.12. Minor edits 7.4.14.

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1831, Private William HILTON — 4th Light Dragoons

Also recorded as "Thomas".

Birth & early life

Born at Manchester.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 23rd of November 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.

Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of August 1857. Regimental No. 98.

Embarked for England on the 6th of March 1865.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 22nd of November 1866.

He is named as "Thomas" Hilton in some rolls.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.

Served in the field in Oude, East Indies, from the 4th of February 1858 — 14th of May 1858, and including the siege of Lucknow, 2th-16th of March 1858.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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