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1674, Private Thomas THORPE - 13th Light Dragoons

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 13th of November 1854.

Age: 23.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Rope-maker.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 21st of May 1855.

Sent to Scutari on the 25th of July and rejoined the regiment on the 30th of October 1855.

Sent to the Depot at York when the regiment went to Canada, 11th of September 1866.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 14th of November 1866.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.


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