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1612, Private Walter BAYLEY — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Richmond, Surrey.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 2nd of September 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Servant.

Service

He originally served as No. 29 in the Tower Hamlets Militia, and was released in order to enlist into the 4th Light Dragoons.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

Sent to Scutari on the 10th of October 1855 and later invalided to England

A nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, shows him as being On Duty there from the 13th of October.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Edinburgh on the 4th of September 1866.

Conduct and character: "good".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Next of kin: Wife, Mary Bayley.

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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