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1587, Private Edward Wilson - 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Brighton, Sussex,

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 10th of May 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of August 1855:

"Deserted" from Manchester on the 7th of September 1861.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals & commemorations

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

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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