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Last amended 7.6.11. Minor edits 18.2.14, 5.4.14.

1579, Private John MASON — 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Kidderminster.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 1st of May 1854.

Trade: Groom.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

Left sick at Scutari on the voyage out, but joined the regiment on the 11th of August 1855.

"Deserted" from Manchester on the 3rd of July 1861.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals

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

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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