Born at Sidmouth, Devonshire, c.1832.
Enlisted at Exeter on the 17th of September 1850.
Age: 17 years 10 months.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Servant.
From Private to Corporal: 7th of July 1854.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol.
Died "with the regiment," in the Crimea on the 7th of October 1854.
Next-of-kin. Father, Thomas Ashford. Living in Sidmouth, Devon.
Wendy Leahy, Shadows of Time website: 4th Light Dragoons Personal Records A.