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Amended 14.5.11

1596, Private James COOK - 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Cirencester.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Gloucester on the 17th of May 1854.

No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a labourer are shown.

Service, discharge & pension

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

Discharged, "time expired," from Cork on the 17th of May 1866.

Conduct, "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

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


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