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Private James GRANT — 1624, 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Birth c.1835.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Liverpool on the 10th of June 1854.

Age: 19.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.

Invalided to England from Scutari on the 14th of April 1856.

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 31st of January 1857. Regimental No. 120.

Embarked for India aboard the "Forerunner".

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Winchester on the 10th of October 1868.

Medals

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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