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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 7.4.14.

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1986, Private Joseph KIRK — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Taunton, Somerset.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 6th of March 1855.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Pave.

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Brighton on the 1st of February 1857. Regimental No. 196.

Embarked for England from India aboard the "" on the 30th of January 1864,

Discharge & pension

Discharged from Canterbury on the 30th of January 1870.

"Free to deferred pension of 4d. per day upon reaching the age of 50 years."

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941 Samuel Briggs.)

Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855, but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment during the Expedition to Eupatoria during the month of October of that same year... Camp Aldershot, 16th of November 1857.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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