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1616, Private George FREWIN — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Liverpool, c.1837.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 5th of January 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Ship's-carpenter.

Service

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

Deserted from Dundalk, Ireland, on the 18th of November 1856.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Further medal information archived

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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