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Amended 17.9.12.

1781 James PARKER — 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Downham Market.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 25th of November 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of September 1856

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"Deserted" from Canterbury on the 15th of September 1856.

Can find no further trace to March of 1865.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.


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