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John Harrison was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1840. He attested into the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment, serving with regimental number 989, and was awarded the Royal Humane Society Large Medal in Bronze for lifesaving in the River Medway, at Chatham, Kent, in July 1862. He is later noted as having deserted from Shorncliffe Barracks on 5 September 1863.
