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Added 17.12.12. Minor edits 2.4.14, 4.4.14.

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1489, Private Robert SIMPSON — 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born in York c.1833.

Enlistment

Enlisted at York on the 21st of December 1854.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Draper.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of July 1855.

At the General Hospital, Scutari, from the 8th of August to the 23rd of September 1855

Discharge & pension

Discharged, on the "Reduction of the Regiment", from Dundalk on the 15th of November 1856.

Served 1 year 330 days.

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

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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