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1859, Private Charles Henry ROGERS — 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born in Dublin.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 29th of December 1854.

Age: 23.

Height: 5' 9".

Trade: Clerk.

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 24th of May 1855.

Invalided to England on the 16th of August 1855.

Transferred to the 17th Lancers at Hounslow on the 1st of September 1857. Regimental No. 153.

Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of September 1857.

Died at Somagurau

In India: on the 7th of March 1860.

Medals & commemorations

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

Mutiny medal without clasp.

In action against the rebels at Zeerapore on the 29th of December 1858 and at Baroda on the 1st of January 1859.


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