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1367, [RANK?] William EDMONDS — 4th Light Dragoons

Also recorded as "Edmunds".

Birth & early life

Born in Wiltshire, c.1830.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 4th of April 1848.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

Died "with the Regiment" in the Crimea on the 12th of December 1854.

Next of kin: Brother, Samuel Edmunds, living in Westminster, London. (Another source states that he had a wife, Eliza, living in Longford, Ireland.)

Medals

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

Name shown as "Edmunds" on the medal rolls.

Commemorations

Death & burial

Died "with the Regiment" in the Crimea on the 12th of December 1854.

Next of kin: Brother, Samuel Edmunds, living in Westminster, London. (Another source states that he had a wife, Eliza, living in Longford, Ireland.)


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