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Private William THOMPSON - 1729, 13th Light Dragoons

Enlistment

Enlisted December 1854

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 the General Hospital, Scutari, on the 19th of November 1855.


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