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800, Private John PORTER — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Hounslow on the 19th of January 1843.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Shooting Star" on the 25th of April 1854.

Discharge & pension

Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment", from Dundalk on the 6th of April 1857.

Served 13 years 318 days.

Conduct: "good,"

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Next of kin (in 1854): Wife, Ellen Porter, to whom he had sent money from the Crimea.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Inkerman and Sebastopol.

Life after service

Death & burial


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