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1579, Private Henry DAY — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Themmingham, near Canterbury, c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Canterbury on the 15th of December 1853.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Left the regiment for the General Depot at Scutari on the 15th of September 1854.

"Believed to have died on the passage down" on the 16th of September 1854.

Next of kin: Father, William Day, living at Canterbury, Kent.

He is not recorded on the Sebastopol clasp roll because of dying before the qualifying date.

Life after service

Death & burial


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