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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 13.3.14, 4.4.14.

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1864 John WALKER — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Leeds.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Halifax on the 12th of February 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Dyer.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Dublin on the 19th of January 1858. Payment of £30.

Served 2 years 241 days.

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

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941 Samuel Briggs.)

Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855, but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Eupatoria during the month of October of that same year... Camp Aldershot, 16th of November 1857.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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