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1587 James BURFORD — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Boughton, near Faversham, Kent.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Canterbury on the 30th of January 1854.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Servant.

Service

Shown as being sent to the General Depot at Scutari on the 21st of December 1854.

"Believed to have died on the passage down" on the 22nd of September 1854.

Next of kin: Father, George Burford, living at Herne Hill, Kent.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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