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Private Alfred JENNER — 1118, 17th Lancers

Also recorded as "Tanner".

Birth & early life

Born at Carshalton, Surrey, c.1833, the son of Christopher Jenner and Mary (nee Coatsworth) who married at Carshalton on the 16th of January 1832. The witnesses were her parents, Joseph and Sarah Coatsworth.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 2nd of May 1852.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Servant.

Service

At Scutari General Hospital from the 22nd of September 1854 and sent to rejoin the regiment in the Crimea on the 3rd of October.

Wounded and taken prisoner of war at Balaclava.

The muster roll states, "Dead, date not known, but almost certainly as a prisoner of war."

He is wrongly named as Alfred "Tanner" in the London Gazette casualty lists.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Death & burial

The muster roll states, "Dead, date not known, but almost certainly as a prisoner of war." Is wrongly named as Alfred "Tanner" in the "London Gazette" casualty lists.

Next of kin: Aunt, Lucy Horton, living in Horley, Surrey.

Further information

See record of 597 Thomas Perry, 8th Hussars.


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