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1443, Private John McBRIDE — 17th Lancers

Birth & early life

Born c.1836.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 23rd of December 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 16th of July 1855.

Sent to the Depot at Canterbury when the regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign on 1st of October 1857.

Absent from the 1st of October — 25th of November 1857 and shown as a "Deserter" from that date,

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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