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Private Walter Bridge - 1888, 13th Light Dragoons




Birth & early life

Born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.


Enlistment

Enlisted at Maidstone on the 28th of March 1855.

No other enlistment details except that of his trade as a shoe-maker are shown.


Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of August 1855:

“On furlo” from the 1-15 of January 1857. Deserted “off furlo” on the 16th of January 1857.

Can find no further trace to 1879.


Medals & commemorations

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


Life after service


Death & burial







Photographs & illustrations



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