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1620 Martin RYAN — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Roscrea, Ireland.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 3rd of October 1854.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 28th of May 1855.

Invalided to England on the 12th of December 1855.

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Brighton on the 1st of March 1857. Regimental No. 314.

Joined the Depot at Canterbury from India on the 22nd of December 1866. Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 24th of April 1867.

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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