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Added 14.9.2011. Minor edits 1.4.14.

1301, Private John ROGERS — 17th Lancers

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 18th of August 1854.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: None shown.

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Brighton on the 20th of June 1855.

Sent to the Depot at Canterbury on the 1st of October 1857.

At Sandhurst from the 1st of January 1863 as servant to Captain Gomme.

Discharged, "time expired", from Aldershot on the 20th of August 1866.

Medals

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

The Returned Medal book states: "Crimean and Turkish medals returned to the Mint. No trace of issue."

Medals

Life after service

To live in Devonport after discharge.


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