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Private George NAYLOR — 1991, 11th Hussars

Also recorded on some rolls as "Nailor"

Birth & early life

Born c.1833.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Bradford on the 8th of March 1855.

Age: 22.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service

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

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 31st of January 1857. Regimental No. 124.

From Private to Corporal: 1st of April 1860.

Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of March 1861.

Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 16th of November 1861. Embarked for England aboard the "Gosforth" on the 31st of January 1864.

From Private to Corporal: 18th of June 1863.

From Netley Hospital to the Cavalry Depot on the 26th of May 1864.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Canterbury on the 27th of July 1865, upon payment of £30.

Served 9 years 4 months.

Conduct and character: "good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge.

Medals

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

Commemorations

Life after service

27 High Street, Rawcliffe in Goole, Yorkshire.

A man of this name is shown in the 1881 Census Returns, a Bricklayer's Labourer, aged 48, born at Hook, Yorkshire, with his wife, Elizabeth, aged 45, born in Rawcliffe, Yorkshire, and three daughters.

Death & burial


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