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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Added 14.12.12. Minor edits 11.4.14.

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1384, Private John HAMILTON — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Newbridge on the 18th of August 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of April 1855.

Sent to Scutari on the 8th of August 1855 and to England on the 14th of September.

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Dundalk on the 31st of December 1856. Regimental No. 226.

From Private to Shoeing-Smith: 9th of June 1863.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial

Died at Chorlton, aged 37 years, on the 6th of September 1875.


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