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1390 Charles APPLETON — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 14th of August 1854.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Clerk.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of July 1855.

From Private to Corporal: 1st of November 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Dundalk on the 11th of September 1856. Payment of £30.

Served 2 years 27 days.

Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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