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1499, Private Benjamin JACOBS — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Taunton, Somerset, c.1832.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 28th of July 1851.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None shown.

Service

At Scutari General Hospital from the 22nd of September 1854 to the 3rd of February 1855 and again 4th-24th of April 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Newbridge, Ireland, on the 27th of June 1865.

Served 12 years 2 days, but 11 years 356 days only, to count.

Conduct and character: "Indifferent." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Lummis and Wynn state, "Nothing further known."

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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