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1739, Private Richard BANCROFT — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Manchester.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 16th of December 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

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

Confined in Lewes Gaol from the 7th of April — 22nd of June 1856.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, on the "Reduction of the Regiment", from Brighton on the 26th of November 1856.

Served 1 year 345 days.

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

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

[Census date = 1881?]

A man of this name was living at No 11 North Street, Salford, a Coal Heaver (Unemployed) aged 50, born at Salford, Manchester, with his wife, Eliza, aged 49, born at Market Drayton, Shropshire.

Two sons were shown, the eldest at 23 being a Coal Heaver and the younger still a Scholar.

Life after service

Death & burial


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