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1402, Private George MEDDOWS — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 14th of September 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of July 1855.

"Absent", 16-23 of May and again from the 25th of May — 26th of June 1856. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned in a Civil prison (for a military offence) from the 27th of June — 13th of August 1856.

His name is shown in red ink at the bottom of the page in the muster roll for April — June of 1857, but no indication of any discharge, transfer, etc., is shown previous to this. He is not shown in the Discharge book, 1857-1910, of the regiment either.

Discharge & pension

Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment and being of a "Bad" character", from Dundalk on the 12th of January 1857.

Served 2 years 31 days, to count.

Conduct and character: "bad." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Shown as "Meadows" on some rolls.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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