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1695, Private John Henry POOLE — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 10th of December 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Draper.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Dublin on the 6th of March 1860. Payment of £30.

Served 6 years 79 days.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of one Good Conduct badge.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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