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Private John MURPHY - 1045, 13th Light Dragoons

Added 28.4.11

Enlistment

Enlisted at Leeds on the 29th of September 1840.

Age: 22.

Height: 5' 10".

Trade: None shown.

Death & burial

Died, "of disease", in Camp in the Crimea on the 23rd of September 1854.

The Regimental History states that he died "of cholera".

Medals & commemorations

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

His name appears on a memorial in a Leeds church.


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