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1750, Private Richard WAITS - 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Cambridge.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 29th of December 1854.

Trade: None.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

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

Died at Newbridge, Ireland, on the 26th of November 1857.

Next of kin: Father [name not given], living in the parish of St. Luke's, London.

Discharge & pension

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Death & burial

Died at Newbridge, Ireland, on the 26th of November 1857.


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