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Last amended 7.6.11. Minor edits 18.2.14, 5.4.14.

1784, Private John MARNEY — 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Stoke, Devon.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Exeter on the 23rd of January 1855.

Trade: Labourer.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 7th of July 1855.

Deserted "off furlo" on the 15th of December 1856.

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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