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1728, Private Samuel NEWTON — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Leeds c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 5th of December 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Slater.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.

"Deserted" from Aldershot on the 21st of June 857.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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