George BARTLETT — 1650, 11th Hussars
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1650, Private George BARTLETT — 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Crookham [PB: Cookham?], Buckinghamshire (sic: should be Berks — RM) c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 10th of April 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Leather-dresser.

Service

To hospital at Scutari upon joining the regiment in the Crimea, 25th of May — 30th of June 1855.<

Discharge & pension

>Discharged, "by claim", from Colchester on the 17th of May 1866.

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

Awarded a Special Campaign Pension, (no date shown.) but it would have been in the early 1890's.

Medals

Commemorations

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

Life after service

The 1881 Census shows a man of this name as living at No. 52, Merrindale Road, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, aged 46, a Draper's Assistant, born at Beachampton, Buckinghamshire, with his wife, Caroline, aged 50 and born at Bristol, Somerset. (Possibility only.)

Death & burial

No information. His last known address may have been 52, Merrindale Road, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, but even this is uncertain.


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