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1451, Private Charles ROBINSON - 13th Light Dragoons

Added 1.5.11

Birth & early life

Born in Swindon.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 2nd of July 1852.

Age: 17.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: Gardener.

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Varna, on the 7th of February 1855.

Discharged "time expired", from Aldershot on the 5th of July 1864.

Served 12 years 3 days.

Conduct: "very good."

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Awarded a "Special Campaign Pension" (no date shown).

Medals & commemorations

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

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

1881 Census

The 1881 Census Return shows a man of this name was living at No. 11 Above Bridge, Newton Toney, Wiltshire, a Labourer, aged 51, born at Newton Toney, Wiltshire, with his wife, Ellen, aged 52, born at Allington, Wiltshire, and 4 children, aged from 22 years to 7 years.

1901 Census

He appears in the 1901 Census, aged 72, still living at Newton Toney, Wilts, an "Agricultural Labourer". [RM]


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