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1750, Private Richard WAITS - 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Cambridge.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 29th of December 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

His trade was shown as "None".

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 7th of July 1855.

Medals & commemorations

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

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Death & burial

Died at Newbridge, Ireland, on the 26th of November 1857.

Next of kin: Father (name not given). Living in the parish of St. Luke's, London.


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