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Amended 17.5.11

Private James GASKIN - 1318, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 14th of January 1847.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Groom.

Service, discharge & pension

At Scutari General Hospital from the 16th of September 1854 and sent to rejoin the regiment on the 3rd of October.

Medals & commemorations

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

Further medal information archived.

Death & burial

Died, "in the Regimental Hospital", on the 19th of May 1855.


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