Born at Bradford, Yorkshire.
Enlisted at London on the 24th of July 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Servant.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of May 1855.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.
Reduced to Private, "by order of the Commanding Officer", 6th of June 1856.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain", 8th of October 1857.
The muster rolls for the period July-September 1858 show him as being "On Field Service" during the whole of this period.
Served in the field at Rajghur and Mungrowlee with Captain William Gordon.
Died, aged 30, at Colchester on the 18th of September 1865. [PB: Presumably while still in service?]
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
The muster roll states: "Crimean medal with clasp, Turkish medal and the Indian Mutiny medal sent to next of kin. Father, Thomas Carroll. Living at Bradford, Yorkshire."
Died, aged 30, at Colchester on the 18th of September 1865.
He was buried in Colchester Cemetery in Grave No. F.4-14. The grave plot was an unpurchased one and no headstone was erected.