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1759, Private Richard TIGHE - 11th Hussars

Enlistment

Enlisted at London into the 15th Hussars on the 10th of April 1851, with the Regimental No. of 1634.

No other enlistment details are shown.

Embarked for India on the 23rd of August 1851.

Transferred to the 11th Hussars on the 1st of November 1854.

Service

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

Invalided to England on the 15th of March 1856.

Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 31st of January 1857. Regimental No. 119.

The muster roll for the October-December quarter of 1863 shows his name as being crossed out, but with no indication of any transfer, etc.

Can find no further trace to 1879.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.


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