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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
The E.J. Boys Archive

Added 24.12.12. Minor edits 13.3.14, 4.4.14.

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1707, Private William WIFFEN - 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Swaffham.

Enlisted on the 30th of June 1854.

No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a tailor are shown.

Service

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

Invalided from Scutari to England aboard the "Ottawa" on the 24th of October 1855.

"Deserted" from Hounslow on the 16th of July 1858.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Sebastopol.


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