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1872, Private Joel WRIGHT - 11th Hussars

Birth & early life

Born at Sheffield.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 9th of January 1855.

Age: 23.

Height: 5' 8".

Trade: Bricklayer.

Service

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

Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 12th of February 1855 for "being drunk for mid-day stables." Awarded 42 days'imprisonment, with hard labour.

Discharge & pension

Discharged from Canterbury, on the "Reduction of the Regiment", on the 20th of November 1856.

Served 1 year 315 days.

Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Life after service

1881 Census

No. 10 Victoria Road, Tottenham, London

According to the 1881 Census Returns a man of this name, a Bricklayer aged 49, un-unmarried and born at Sheffield was living as a Boarder at the home of Charles Wright, a Bricklayer.

Death & burial


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