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1716 James THOMPSON - 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Dumfries. Scotland.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 3rd of January 1855.

Age: 22.

Height: 5' 6".

Trade: Shoe-maker.

Service

Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of June 1855.

Died "in the General Hospital at Scutari" on the 3rd of November 1855.

Next of kin: Father, James Thompson, living at Parkgreen, Preston, Lancashire.

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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