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Added 25.11.12. Entry tidied up 16.3.17.

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1805, Private John FORD — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born c.1833.

Enlistment

Enlisted (not shown where) on the 29th of January 1855.

Age: 22.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of June 1855.

Muster roll states "Small book lost."

Death & burial

Died at Scutari on the 31st of July 1855.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Commemorations

Death & burial

Died at Scutari on the 31st of July 1855.


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