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1020, Private John COPE — 17th Lancers

Birth & Early Life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Dublin on the 26th of October 1849.

Age: 21.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None shown.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for the Alma.

Lummis and Wynn state that he was also entitled to the clasp for Sebastopol, but he is not shown on the roll.

Death & burial

Died ,"At Sea", en route for Scutari on the 28th of September 1854.


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