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1710, Private Robert CARROLL — 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Youghal, Co. Cork.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Youghal into the 66th Foot on the 18th of November 1850.

Regimental No. 3178.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Farmer.

Service, discharge & pension

Joined the Depot at Newbridge from Guernsey on the 5th of July 1854, following his transfer to the 11th Hussars, which was dated the 30th of June 1854. The Depot muster roll shows him as "having travelled from Guernsey to Dublin via Plymouth by steam packet and then by rail to Newbridge."

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment and not likely to become efficient", from Canterbury on the 20th of November 1856.

Served 5 years 356 days.

Conduct: "Bad". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals & commemorations

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

Life after service

[RM: A man of this name is hown in the 1861 Census at Chichester as a Private, Army, and in 1871 as the same in Canterbury in the 2/18th foot. It is not known if there is any connection.]

Death & burial


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