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1128, Charles MARSHALL — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Warham, Norfolk, c.1823.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 28th of April 1841 and was at the Maidstone Depot from the 29th.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Chemist.

There is no place of this name in Norfolk, but there is a "Hoxne" in Suffolk, which is pronounced "Hoxen." His grandfather may have been Charles Marshall, a bachelor, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, who married Charlotte Stanton, a spinster, of the parish of St. Magdalene, Warham, in the parish church there on the 28th of June 1795.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol.

Further medal information archived.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial

Killed in action at Balaclava.

Next of kin: Father, Robert Marshall, living in "Hoxen", Norfolk.


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