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Private William THOMPSON - 1729, 13th Light Dragoons

Enlistment

Enlisted December 1854

Service

Embarked for the Crimea on the 4th of September 1855 and arrived in the Crimea at Balaclava as part of a draft of 50 men under the command of Lt. Robert MacNeill on the 29th of September 1855.

Served in Eupatoria.

Died at the General Hospital, Scutari, on the 19th of November 1855.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to Crimean medal without clasp and the Turkish Medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Death & burial

Died at the General Hospital, Scutari, on the 19th of November 1855.


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