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1273, Corporal Charles McELROY — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Westminster on the 9th of February 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: None shown.

Sent to the Cavalry Depot on the 19th of April 1854.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of April 1855.

From Private to Corporal: 4th of January 1856.

Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 9th of May 1856, but this sentence was remitted.

Discharge & pension

Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment" from Dundalk on the 6th of April 1857.

Served 2 years 69 days.

Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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