Home Search Index of men A-Z

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


Added 3.5.11

1630, Private William Henry YOUNG - 13th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in London.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 13th of July 1854.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Carpenter.

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of August 1855.

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 28th of February 1857. Regimental No. 278.

Joined the Canterbury Depot from India on the 22nd of December 1866.

Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 24th of June 1867.

Named as "Henry Young" on discharge.

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 "Henry Young" living at No. 3 Nottingham Place, St. Marylebone, London. He is described as a Domestic Servant, aged 48, born in London, one of three Domestic Servants in the house of Charles Bayer, a Stay Manufacturer.

Death & burial


New on the site Search Index of men Y
For further information, or to express an interest in the project, please email the editors, Philip Boys & Roy Mills, via info@chargeofthelightbrigade.com