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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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1632 Isaac WATSON — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born at Brompton, London.

Enlistment

Enlisted at London on the 20th of October 1854.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Labourer.

Service

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

Discharge & pension

Discharged, "on the Reduction of the Regiment," from Brighton on the 14th of February 1857.

Served 1 year 289 days.

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

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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