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1736 Abraham OGDEN — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Burnley.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester by the 3rd L.D. for the 4th on the 12th of December 1854.

Age: 22.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Machine-minder.

Service

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

Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of August 1857. Regimental No. 89.

Joined the Depot at Canterbury from India on the 25th of December 1867. Transferred to the 5th Lancers on the 3rd of January 1870. Regimental No. 1265.

Died at Zealot, [sic] India, on the 23rd of Apri1 1872. No other details are shown.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.

Served in the field in Oude, East Indies, from the 4th of February — 14th of May 1858, including the Siege of Lucknow, 2-16 of March 1858.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Further information

The India Office records show that he died at Sealkote on the 23rd of April 1872 from "Cholera" at the age of 39 years. He was buried on the same day by the Revd. A.D.B. Aguilar, Chaplain.

Life after service

Death & burial


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