Born in London.
Enlisted at London on the 7th of October 1852.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Servant.
Sent to Scutari on the 16th of September 1854 and rejoined the regiment on the 3rd of October.
Discharged, "time expired", from Hounslow on the 7th of September 1864.
Conduct: "very good". In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
From "Recollections of a Young Soldier" by 1228, Harry Powell:
"A man of ours, by name, Kneller, (before enlisting he was a bus-conductor) in trying to put his horse over the side into the sea, went over with the animal, poor fellow. I thought he was gone for ever, but a sailor on board a man-of-war jumped in after him and brought him up; he was taken aboard, attended to, and appeared all right the next morning."
EJB: This was at the time of the disembarkation in the Crimea proper.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava Inkerman, Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
A supplementary roll (undated) signed by Major Henry Holden shows him as being issued with the Crimean medal (with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman) on the 7th of October 1855.
[RM: The death of a Frederick "Thomas" Kneller, aged 36, is shown in the Marylebone registration district during the December quarter of 1867.]