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Amended 16.5.11

Private William FOWKES - 1535, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Birmingham.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Birmingham on the 16th of November 1853.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Gun-maker.

Service, discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Norwich, on the 17th of November 1865.

Served 12 years.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Next of kin (1n 1854). Mother, Mrs. Fowkes. Living in Anchor Yard, off Dartmouth Street, Birmingham.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.

Life after service

A man of this name is shown in the 1881 Census Returns as living at No, 110 Windsor Street, Aston, Warwick, as a Widower, a Leather Case Maker, aged 45, born in Birmingham with his three children the two eldest sons being a Metal Roller and a Printer's Machinist.

Death & burial


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