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1313, Private Patrick FARRELL — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 6th of June 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of June 1855.

He is shown on a nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, as being In Hospital there from the 4th of November.

Absent from embarkation of detachment in March 1856.

Rejoined on the 12th of April and confined from the 11th-16th of April.

Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned from the 17th-22nd of April 1856.

In "Barrack Cells": 29th of January — 5th of February 1857.

Discharge & pension

Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment" from Cahir on the 6th of April 1857.

Served 2 years 217 days.

Conduct and character: "Bad".

Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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