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1894 Isaac BOYD — 4th Light Dragoons

Enlistment

Enlisted at Birmingham on the 20th of February 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Deserted from Brighton on the 12th of February 1860.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941 Samuel Briggs.)

Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855 but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Eupatoria during the month of October of that same year. Camp Aldershot, 16th of November 1857.

Life after service

Death & burial


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