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1369 William HINSON — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Lancaster.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 12th of April 1848.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Carpenter.

Sent to Scutari on the 20th of December 1854 and died there on the 21st of January 1855.

(Is named as "Hinton" on the Scutari Hospital muster rolls.)

No next-of-kin details are shown.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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