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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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1823 Richard SMITH — 4th Light Dragoons

Enlistment

Enlisted at Cirencester on the 12th of January 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: None shown.

From Private to Corporal: 31st of October 1860.

Corporal to Sergeant: 23rd of April 1866.

Died at Canterbury on the 15th of March 1873.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941 Samuel Briggs.)

Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855, but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Eupatoria during the month of October of that same year... Camp Aldershot, 16th of November 1857.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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