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Private Donald MCKAY - 1780, 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in the parish of St. Pancras, London.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 17th of January 1855.

No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a cordwainer are shown. Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 7th of July 1855.

Service, discharge & pension

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Death & burial

Died "of disease," in the Regimental Hospital on the 18th of August 1855.


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