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1408, Private John MURDOCH — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born in Lisburn, c.1836.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 25th of September 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Mason.

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

"Deserted" from Dundalk on the 8th of November 1856.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

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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