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1681, Private Benjamin IBBERSON — 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Kirkheaton [3 miles W of Huddersfield], Yorkshire, date unknown.

Enlistment

Enlisted on the 23rd of May 1854.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Service

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

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Hounslow on the 23rd of April 1857. Regimental No. 372.

Embarked for India aboard the "Ghengis Khan."

Returned to England on the 1st of April 1866.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury Depot on the 25th of August 1866.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Life after service

Death & burial


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