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Last amended 6.6.2011. Minor edits 17.2.14, 12.4.14.

1733, Private Henry KELLY — 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in London, c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Birmingham on the 16th of January 1855.

Age: 20

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 13th of August 1855.

"Deserted", off furlo, on the 10th of January 1857.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Death & burial


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