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1668 William PARKER — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in London.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Brighton on the 22nd of November 1854.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 5".

Trade: Plasterer.

Service

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

Volunteered into the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Brighton on the 1st of March 1857. Regimental No. 212.

Deserted from Aldershot on the 12th of July 1857.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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