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Amended 16.5.11

Private Charles FISHER - 1667, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 6th of November 1854.

Age: 17.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service, discharge & pension

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

Sent to Scutari, being at the Cavalry Depot there from the 27th of August 1855.

Discharged, "by purchase," from Cahir on the 23rd of February 1857, with a payment of £30.

Served 1 year 291 days, to count.

Conduct: "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

Death & burial


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