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1706, Private George BELWARD — 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

No information, but likely to have been born c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted on the 13th of July 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of May 1855.

Sent to the Depot when the regiment went to India. 25th of July 1866.

Discharge & pension

>Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 30th of July 1866.

Conduct: "very good". In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Medals

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

The muster roll states, "No documentation available."

Commemorations

Life after service

1871 Census

73, Wellington Road, Finsbury.

The 1871 Census shows him born as at St Pancras, London, a "Railway Porter". He was a widower by this time. RM]

Death & burial

His death, aged 42, is shown in the GRO registers in the September quarter of 1877 [where?]. In the 1871 Census he was living at 73, Wellington Road, Finsbury, so he is likely to have buried locally.


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