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Added 25.11.12.

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1953, Private James DAVIS — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Stockport, c.1837.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 7th of March 1855.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Weaver.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "invalided", from Dublin on the 21st of February 1865.

Granted a pension of 7d. per day for three years.

Living in Manchester after discharge.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See also the record of 1941, Samuel Briggs, 4th Light Dragoons.)

[PB: is this a quote?]

Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855 but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment during the Expedition to Eupatoria during the month of October of that same year... Camp Aldershot, 16th of November 1857.

Commemorations

Life after service

No info.

Death & burial

No info.


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