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Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 7.4.14.

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1321, Private John JORDAN — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Sligo, Ireland, c.1826.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 9th of April 1847.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Sent to Scutari on the 28th of November 1854 and died there on the 17th of December 1854.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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