LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
The E.J. Boys Archive

1797, Private Samson STRICKLAND - 13th Light Dragoons

Added 2.5.11

Enlistment

Enlisted February 1855

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. Served in Eupatoria.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to Crimean medal without clasp and the Turkish Medal.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Death & burial

Died at General Hospital, Scutari, on 14th of October 1855.