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Added 25.11.2012. Minor edits 28.7.15.

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1462, Private Herbert GROVES — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Derby c.1831.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 11th of December 1850.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Wool-carder.

Service

Sent to Scutari on the 27th of January 1855.

At Scutari from the 31st of January 1855 and invalided to England on the 28th of March.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Newbridge on the 16th of January 1863.

Conduct and character: "good".

In possession of one Good Conduct badge.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1879.

Life after service

Death & burial

Further information

Wendy Leahy, Shadows of Time website: 4th Light Dragoons Personal Records G.


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