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Amended 17.5.11

Private Frances GROVES - 1602, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Sutton, Berkshire.

Enlistment

Enlisted on the 16th of May 1854.

No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a farrier are shown.

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the Regiment in the Crimea on the 9th of July 1855.

Sent to Scutari on the 25th of August 1855 but died before he reached there.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Death & burial

Died, "of disease", on the passage down to Scutari on 26th August 1855.


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