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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 2.4.14, 4.4.14.

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1766, Private Benjamin SANDERSON — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at York.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Leeds on the 6th of January 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Tailor.

Service

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

Discharge & pension

Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment," from Brighton on the 2nd of November 1856.

Served 1 year 329 days.

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

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Life after service

Death & burial


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