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1754, Private Michael MEILLIOR — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born c.1837.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 19th of March 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service

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

"Deserted" from Dundalk on the 14th of April 1857.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Next of kin (in 1855): Mother, Mary Mellior.

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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