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1610, Private Charles KING — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in London.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 26th of December 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 28th of April 1855.

Sent to Scutari from the 20th of July and invalided to England on the 8th of September 1855.

Deserted from Brighton on the 5th of April 1856.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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