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Minor edit 7.4.14.

Private James MOODY — 1820, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born c.1830.

Enlistment

Enlisted on the 19th of December 1854.

Age: 24.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Marble-carver.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of April 1855.

Transferred to the 17th Lancers on the 1st of September 1857. Regimental No. 150.

Sent to the Depot at Canterbury on the 1st of October 1857.

"Absent" from the 6th of October and struck off as a "deserter" from the 6th of December 1857.

Can find no further trace to March of 1865.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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