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Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 7.4.14.

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1606, Private William JONES — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born c.1836.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Brighton on the 15th of September 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

A nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, shows him as being In Hospital there from the 19th of October.

Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of August 1857. Regimental No. 82.

On passage to England from India on board the "Tyne" on the 9th of April 1860.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "invalided", from Canterbury on the 18th of August 1860.

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 1858 — 14th of May 1858, including the siege of Lucknow, 2nd-16th of March 1858.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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