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1414, Private John WATSON - 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Edinburgh on the 14th of November 1850.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 8"

Trade: None shown.

Death & burial

Died, "of disease", in the Crimea on the 29th of September 1854.

Medals & commemorations

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

Life after service

Death & burial


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