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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Added 25.11.12. Minor edits 14.9.15. Entry tidied up 16.3.17.

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1617, Private James FOWLER — 4th Light Dragoons

Also recorded as Thomas.

Birth & early life

Born at Weymouth, Dorset, c.1836.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Brighton on the 15th of September 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Carpenter.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of June 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Dublin on the 24th of January 1861. Payment of £30.

Served 6 years 102 days.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of one Good Conduct badge.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Named as "Thomas" Fowler on the Sebastopol clasp roll and also on discharge.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Further detailed medal information archived.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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