Born at Burwash, Sussex.
Enlisted at Westminster into the 3rd Light Dragoons on the 14th of February 1851. Regimental No. 2056.
Age: 19 years 4 months.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Sawyer.
Features: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Lt. brown hair.
Transferred to the 13th Hussars on the 1st of July 1853.
Left at Scutari on "Staff Employ" on the 3rd of May 1856.
Transferred to the 2nd Bn. of the Military Train at Cahir on the 31st of October 1856. Regimental No. 977.
From Private to Corporal 1st of January 1857.
Transferred to the 5th Bn. on the 1st of April 1857.
Corporal to Sergeant 8th of August 1857.
Discharged, on the "Reduction of the Regiment", on the 19th of June 1861.
Served 11 years 126 days.
Conduct: "very good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge when promoted.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
He is not shown on the Membership Lists of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in either 1877 or 1879.
The 1881 Census Return shows George Eastwood as living at No. 14 Rochdale Road, Tonbridge, Kent, a General Labourer, aged 50, born at Burwash, Sussex, with his wife, Emily, aged 48, born at Stanmore, Sussex, and two sons, George, 16, an Apprentice Plumber [died in 1885 aged 20]; and William, 13, a boy Plumber.
Death registered
His wife, Emily Eastwood, 55, registered June Quarter 1888, in Tunbridge.
[RM: The same man is shown living at 34, Rochdale Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent in the 1901 Census, a 73-year-old widower, lodger and General Labourer.]
[RM: The GRO records show a George Eastwood registered as dying, aged 72, in the Tunbridge Registration District during the December quarter of 1902.]
Registration of death kindly provided by Chris Poole.