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715, Troop Sergeant Major John WESTON - 13th Light Dragoons

Enlistment

Enlisted at Leeds on the 28th of August 1834.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service, discharge & pension

From Private to Corporal: 28th of September 1834.

Resigned to Private "in order to embark for India," on the 20th of June 1836.

From Private to Corporal: 7th of June 1838.

Corporal to Sergeant: 29th of December 1839.

Returned to England aboard the "Lady Flora" in June of 1840.

Appointed to Troop Sergeant Major on the 19th of April 1850.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol.

Death & burial

Killed in action at Balaclava 25th October 1854.


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