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Private Joseph Gabriel – 1592, 13th Light Dragoons




Birth & early life

Born in London.


Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 18th of May 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.


Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 21st of May 1855.

Discharged "time expired" from Coventry on the 19th of May 1866.

Served 12 years.

Conduct: "good."

In possession of one G.C. badge.


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, 48 Falkland Road, St, Pancras, a Brass Finisher, aged 46, born in London Middlesex, with his wife, Mary, aged 46 and also born in London and nine children, 7 boys and two girls.


Death & burial

Eds: The GRO records show a Joseph Richard Gabriel as dying aged 58 in the Poplar registration district of London in the quarter of June 1893.







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