Shadrack Byfield
(1789-1874)
British infantryman
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Shadrack Byfield (sometimes Shadrach, 1789-1874) was a British infantryman who served in the 41st Regiment during the War of 1812. He is best known as the author of a memoir of his wartime experiences, A Narrative of a Light Company Soldier's Service, published in his hometown of Bradford on Avon in England in 1840. This work is notable as one of the only accounts of the conflict penned by a common British soldier.
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1789 Woolley, near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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17 January 1874 (aged 84) Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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