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Private John Ludbrooke – 1769, 13th Light Dragoons




Birth & early life


Enlistment

No enlistment details known.


Service, discharge & pension

Embarked for the Crimea on the 4th of September 1855 and arrived in the Crimea at Balaclava as part of a draft of 50 men under the command of Lt. Robert MacNeill, on the 29th of September 1855.


Medals & commemorations

Entitled to Crimean medal without clasp and the Turkish Medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.


Death & burial

Died at Balaclava on the 23rd of November 1855.







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