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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Amended 18.5.11

Private Edward HOLDER - 1697, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in the parish of Southover, Lewes, Sussex.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Birmingham on the 9th of December 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 13th of August 1855.

Tried by a Regimental Court-martial (no date shown) for "disobeying an order given by a superior" and awarded 50 lashes, the whole of which were remitted.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn

Life after service

Death & burial

Died at Hamilton, Scotland, on the 18th of June 1860.


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