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1364 John COLDWELL — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in London.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 28th of March 1848.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Baker,

Sent to Scutari on the 16th of January 1855.

Invalided to England on the 14th of June 1855.

Discharge & pension

Discharged from Manchester "time expired", on the 27th of April 1860.

Conduct and character: "good".

In possession of one Good Conduct badge.

Medals & commemorations

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

Is named in the 1877 list but not in the revised 1879 list of members of the Balaclava Commemoration Society.

Life after service

Death & burial


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