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1503, Private Robert HAYES — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born c.1834.

Enlistment

Enlisted by the 7th Hussars for the 8th Hussars at Sheffield on the 26th of December 1854.

He was a volunteer from the 2nd Battalion West Yorks Militia.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service

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

Shown as "absent", 15th of October — 31st of December 1856.

There is no entry for January — March 1857.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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