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LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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Added 26.11.12. Minor edits 13.3.14, 4.4.14.

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1730, Private George WORTHINGTON — 4th Light Dragoons

Birth & early life

Born in Manchester.

Enlistment

Enlisted at Manchester on the 6th of December 1854.

Age: 18.

Height: 5' 7".

Trade: Weaver.

Service

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

Invalided to England on the 23rd of January 1856.

Discharge & pension

Discharged from Brighton on the 8th of December 1856.

"Suffers from Scrofula, and on the "Reduction of the Regiment."

Served 2 years 1 day.

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

Medals & commemorations

Entitled to the medal with clasp for Sebastopol.

Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.

Life after service

Death & burial


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