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1390, Private Isaac TOOMER / TOOMAR - 17th Lancers

Birth & early life

Enlistment

Enlisted at Cork on the 1st of December 1854.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: None shown.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Cork on the 16th of July 1855.

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

The musters for July-September 1858 show him as being 'Sick at Kirkee" during September, and no particular service movement is shown during the whole of the period.

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "by purchase", from Colchester on the 25th of February 1865, upon payment of £10.

Served 11 years 87 days.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Medals & commemorations

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

Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.

Life after service

Death & burial


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