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1562 Alfred MARTIN — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Bedford, c.1831.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 2nd of March 1853.

Age: 22.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Labourer.

Sent to Scutari on the 25th of January 1855.

Invalided to England on the 21st of March 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Edinburgh on the 1st of August 1865.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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