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Private George Henry MOORE — 1899, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born in Nottingham, c.1834.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 10th of February 1855.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

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

Hospital Orderly at Hampton Court during March and April of 1857.

"Absent," 24th of July — 1st of August 1858.

He committed suicide at Hounslow sometime between these dates and was shown as "Struck off", effective from the 2nd of August 1858.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Death & burial

He committed suicide at Hounslow sometime between these dates and was shown as "Struck off", effective from the 2nd of August 1858.

The St. Catherine's House records show a man of this name as dying in the Brentford District during the July-September quarter of 1858.

The burial records of St. Leonard's Church, at Heston, show that he was interred there on the 7th of August 1858, aged 33 years, the service being conducted by the Revd. S.R. Andrews.


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