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Private Henry Bigwood – 1642, 13th Light Dragoons




Birth & early life

Born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire.


Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 22nd of August 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5’ 7”.

Trade: Carpenter.


Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 21st of May 1855.

Served Eupatoria.

Discharged “by purchase”, from Cahir on the 13th of June 1859. Payment of £30.

Served 4 years 288 days.

Conduct, “good”. In possession of one Good Conduct badge.


Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

 

Life after service


Death & burial

Editor’s note:

A man of this name is shown as having died in the Melksham (Trowbridge) district in the quarter of June 1880, aged 45.







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