Enlisted at Birmingham on the 16th of December 1843.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: None shown.
Died, "in the Regimental Hospital" in the Crimea, on the 24th of July 1855.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Died, "in the Regimental Hospital" in the Crimea, on the 24th of July 1855.
Next of kin: Wife (name not shown).
Joseph Coley is mentioned in the letters of 772 Thomas Davis, 17th Lancers as "an old comrade", and asks his mother to tell Mrs. Coley that her husband "had died of diarrhoea". (See copy of letter in the 17th Lancer file.)