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1789, Private William BEDFORD — 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at York on the 25th of January 1855.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 5 .

Service, discharge & pension

Embarked for the Crimea on the 4th of September 1855 and arrived in the Crimea at Balaclava as part of a draft of 50 men under the command of Lt. Robert MacNeill on the 29th of September 1855.

Served in Eupatoria.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to Crimean medal without clasp and the Turkish Medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn

Life after service

Death & burial


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