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1678, Private Thomas MITCHELL — 13th Light Dragoons

Added 28.4.11. Minor edits 18.2.14, 5.4.14.

Birth

Born in Liverpool, c.1834.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 14th of November 1854.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Slater.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of August 1855.

Transferred to the 5th Lancers at Cahir on the 16th of March 1858. Regimental No. 136.

Joined the Canterbury Depot from India, via Netley Hospital, on the 19th of April 1867.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 24th of April 1867.

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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