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1608, Private James SULLIVAN — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Brighton on the 31st of August 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 1st of March 1857. Regimental No. 204.

He is named as "John" Sullivan in some 3rd Dragoon Guard rolls.

Died at Sattora, India, on the 11th of March 1858.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Death & burial

Died at Sattora, India, on the 11th of March 1858.

Further information

Born: at Killarney

Occupation: Labourer


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[Source:http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/4ths/dragoons/sullivan5.html (accessed 6.1.2014).]


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