LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
The E.J. Boys Archive

Added 16.12.12

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1433, Private John PEARSON — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 3rd of November 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Dundalk on the 14th of July 1855. Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment", from Dundalk on the 8th of November 1856.

Served 2 years 5 days.

In Turkey and the Crimea: 8 months.

Conduct: "good," Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial