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1462, Private John LYMBREY — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Dysant, near Mullingatt, Co. Westmeath.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 27th of September 1850.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: None.

Shown as "Missing" on the muster roll for the period. Supposed to have been taken prisoner by the Russians on the 10th of November 1854, and presumably died shortly after.

Next of kin: Father, Gregory Lymbrey, living at Carrick-on-Sur, Waterford.

Medals

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

From the medal roll: "At the Sick Horse Depot" on the 5th of October 1854 and Prisoner-of-War — since "Dead."

Commemorations

Death & burial

The medal roll says "At the Sick Horse Depot" on the 5th of October 1854 and Prisoner-of-War — since "Dead."

Shown as "Missing" on the muster roll for the period. Supposed to have been taken prisoner by the Russians on the 10th of November 1854, and presumably died shortly after.

Next of kin: Father, Gregory Lymbrey, living at Carrick-on-Sur, Waterford.


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