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Private Henry Collins - 1874, 13th Light Dragoons
1874 Henry COLLINS
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Editor’s note:
Born at H…field Lassery.
Enlisted 7th March 1855 at Headquarters.
Trade: Labourer
Joined regiment at Dorchester from depot at Maidstone 2 August 1855.
Embarked for the Crimea on the 4th of September 1855 and arrived in the Crimea at Balaclava as part of a draft of 50 men under the command of Lt. Robert MacNeill, on the 29th of September 1855. Served in Eupatoria.
Entitled to Crimea medal without clasp and Turkish medal.
Invalided at Kilmainham 26th October 1857.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
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