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Amended 16.5.11

Private George FEARON - 1671, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 11th of November 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Saddler.

Service, discharge & pension

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

Sent to Weedon to be "instructed in saddle-making" on the 1st of October 1857.

Attached to the 15th Hussars from the 1st of June - 1st of October 1859.

In a Military Prison from the 1st of July - 10th of September 1866.

Sent to the Depot at York on the 11th of September 1866.

Discharged from Canterbury, "time expired," on the 14th of November 1866.

Conduct and character: "good." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

The 1881 Census Return shows him as living at No. 1 House, Back of Queen Ann Street, Liverpool, a Cotton Porter (Lodger in House) aged 46, born in Liverpool.

1871 Census

George Fearon, 32, Porter, born Liverpool.

Betsy, 23, wife, born Sheffield.

Death & burial

References & acknowledgements

Census information for 1871 kindly provided by Chris Poole.


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