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1521, Private Francis DIGNAN — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 1st of December 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown

Service

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

Shown as "absent" from the 5th of October -31st of December 1856 and there is no entry for him in the January-March Quarter of 1857.

Can find no further trace to March 1879.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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