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1009 Henry HUNT — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Woolwich, London, and was christened in the church of St. Mary at Woolwich on the 30th of March 1817, the son of John and Elizabeth May Hunt.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 17th of December 1838.

Age: 22.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Labourer.

Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.

Service

At Scutari General Depot from the 22nd of September 1854 and sent to rejoin the regiment on the 3rd of October.

At Scutari again from the 4th of April — 11th of May 1855.

Invalided to England on the 6th of July 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 24th of September 1855.

"Unfit for further service. Rendered unfit from permanent stricture of the urethra. No cause can be assigned for the presence of the disease."

Served 16 years 284 days. Is shown as having served both in India [sic] and the Crimea.

Conduct: "a good soldier".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Aged 39 years on discharge.

Granted a pension of 8d. per day.

To live in Henry Street, St. John's Wood, London.

Medals

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

Lived in the Deptford Pension District from the 1st of March 1856 and in Woolwich from the 30th of October 1860.

Died in the Woolwich Pension District on the 31st of May 1860.

Life after service

Death & burial


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