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Private John JAY - 1253, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Guildford on the 3rd of May 1846.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 6,"

Trade: None shown.

Service, discharge & pension

Sent to Scutari on the 4th of December 1855.

Medals & commemorations

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

The regimental medal rolls for "A" and "I" show, "Dead. WO 8/12/56. Medal recd. from Regt. Sent to... (Illegible).

Ditto on the Sebastopol roll, but nothing added on the actual "B" clasp roll.

Death & burial

Died in the General Hospital there on the 9th of December 1855.


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