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1815, Private Samuel STEVENS — 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Originally enlisted into the Dorsetshire Militia, but was attested for the 13th Light Dragoons at Exeter on the 28th of February 1855.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 13th of August 1855

Discharge & pension

Discharged, on the "Reduction of the Regiment", from Cahir on the 10th of March 1857.

Served 2 years 11 days.

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

Medals & commemorations

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

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.


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