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1558, Private Thomas GIFFORD — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Cambridge, c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Birmingham on the 5th of February 1853.

Age: 17.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Butcher.

Service

Sent to Scutari on the 30th of December 1854 and died there "of "chronic dysentery" on the 20th of January 1855.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.

Further medal information archived.

Commemorations

Death & burial

Sent to Scutari on the 30th of December 1854 and died there "of "chronic dysentery" on the 20th of January 1855.


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