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820, Private William TOPHAM - 8th Hussars

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at York on the 30th of August 1843.

Age: 21.

Height: 5'7".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Medora" on the 27th of April 1854.

Sent to Scutari on the 21st of November and invalided to England, via Malta, on the 15th of December 1854.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.

The medal roll shows; "Medal to W.O. 14/5/57."

Further detailed medal information archived.

Life after service

Death & burial


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