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

Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 13.3.14, 4.4.14.

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1522, Private John WOOD — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Woolwich on the 10th of February 1852.

Age: 17 years 9 months.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Servant.

Service

At Scutari on the 20th of September 1854, rejoining the regiment on the 4th of October.

At Scutari again 4th of April — 11th of May 1855.

"Deserted" from Aldershot on the 3rd of October 1857.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals & commemorations

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

Life after service

Death & burial


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