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1728, Private John OLIVER — 13th Light Dragoons

Enlistment

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 17th of December 1854

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 8".

Service

Embarked for the Crimea on the 4th of September 1855 and arrived in the Crimea at Balaclava as part of a draft of 50 men under the command of Lt. Robert MacNeill, on the 29th of September 1855.

Served in Eupatoria.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to Crimean medal without clasp and the Turkish Medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.


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