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Added 25.11.12.

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1761, Private Joseph GALLIMORE — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Stockport, Cheshire, c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 5th of January 1855.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Blacksmith's-striker.

Service

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

Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of August 1857. Regimental No. 91.

From Private to Corporal: 6th of April 1862.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.

Served in the field in Oude, East Indies, from the 4th of February — 14th of March 1858, including the siege of Lucknow, 2-16 of March 1858.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial

"Found drowned" (at Sealkote, India) on the 1st of April 1865.


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