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Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 13.3.14, 4.4.14.

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1468 James WATSON — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Walsall, Staffordshire.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 17th of January 1851.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Servant.

Service

Left the regiment for the General Depot at Scutari on the 19th of September 1854.

The muster roll states, "Supposed to have died on board ship during the passage, 20th of September 1854."

Next of kin: Mother, Mrs. Mary Hackett, living at Orgrave, near Lichfield, Staffs.

His name does not appear on the Sebastopol clasp roll

Death & burial

The muster roll states, "Supposed to have died on board ship during the passage, 20th of September 1854."


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