Enlisted at Hounslow on the 11th of November 1843.

Age: 20.

Height: 5' 10".

Trade: Draper.

Fair complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.

From Private to Corporal 17th of September 1852.

Corporal to Sergeant 1st of October 1854.

Wounded in action at Balaclava.

Sent to Scutari on the 26th of October 1854, having been "sent on board ship without being seen by the surgeon".

Invalided to England on the 21st of January 1855, aboard the "Orinoco" and being at Chatham Depot from the 12th of February.

Sent on "Sick furlo until discharged" to Bristol on the 30th of June 1855.

Finally discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 2nd of October 1855, as "Unfit for further service from vertigo and loss of incisor teeth of both jaws from shell wound received at Balaclava".

Served 10 years 325 days.

Conduct: "good".

In possession of two Good Conduct badges.

Aged 31 years 11 months on discharge.

Was awarded a pension of 1/6d. per day.

Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.

Attended the first Balaclava Banquet in 1875.

Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1875.

Signed the Loyal Address to the Queen in 1887.

His Crimean medal, with clasps for A. B. and S. and named to "E. Martin. 13th Light Dragoons." was sold from the "E. Lucas" collection at Glendining's on the 15th of June 1939.

Admitted as an In-pensioner at Chelsea Royal Hospital on the 1st of September 1884.

At the time of his entry into Chelsea Royal Hospital as an In-Pensioner he was aged 61 years, "had no wife, and his children were provided for," his character was "good" and he had previously been living in the Bristol Pension District.