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Amended 16.5.11

Private Nicholas FLINT - 1758, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted on the 2nd of January 1855.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 3rd of August 1855.

Sent to Scutari on the 12th of September 1855.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Further medal information archived.

Death & burial

Medal roll states "Dead." No indication of the date or place is shown, but he died in the General Hospital at Scutari on the 21st of September 1855.

He left no will, and had £2/4/0 in his "credits".

[RM: A letter concerning his death was written by Florence Nightingale from Scutari on the 22nd September 1855. It is now in the collection of School of Nursing of the University of California at San Francisco. It was donated by Florence Nightingale's family.]

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