Born in Colchester, Essex.
Enlisted at Woolwich on the 14th of February 1852.
Age: 16 years 8 months.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Gardener.
At the Sick Horse Depot on the 5th of November 1854.
Volunteered to the 17th Lancers at Aldershot on the 1st of September 1857. Regimental No. 55.
Embarked for India aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Discharged, "time expired", from Colchester on the 15th of December 1865.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol.
Neither HTLB or the medal rolls held at the PRO credit him with the clasp for Inkerman, but a Nominal Return of some 30 plus men of the regiment who are shown on this as being issued with their medals on the 6th of October 1855 with various clasps, records him as being given it with the clasps for Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman. (This roll forms part of a series of documents, &c., under the title "Medals. Cavalry Division, Crimea 1854-6" which were retained by Colonel Charles Shute, A.A.G of the Cavalry Division, and came onto the open market in 1997 and a copy — or the original — is not held by the PRO.)
No record of any medals ever being on the market is known.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
The muster rolls for the July-September 1858 period show him as "On Field Service" during the whole of the period.
Served in the field at Raghur with Captain William Gordon.