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Private Edward Bishop – 1759, 13th Light Dragoons



Birth & early life

Born at Wolverhampton.


Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 10th of December 1854.

No other enlistment details except that of his trade as a tin-plate worker are shown.


Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 7th of July 1855.


Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol .

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.


Death & burial

Died in the Regimental Hospital “of disease” on the 16th of July 1855.







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