Born in the parish of St. Mary's, Dublin, on the 4th of September 1820.
Enlisted at Dublin on the 3rd of January 1840.
Age: 19 years 4 months.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Butcher.
Appearance: Fair complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.
At Scutari from the 13th of January 1855 until being invalided to England aboard the "Julia" on the 28th of April, landing at Portsmouth on the 18th of May 1855 and going to the Depot at Brighton.
Rejoined the regiment at Cahir on the 1st of June 1856.
Granted a "Free discharge, at his own request, with right of registry for a deferred pension of 4d. per day upon reaching the age of 50 years," from Cahir on the 11th of November 1856.
Served 16 years 24 days, to count. In Turkey and the Crimea, 1 year 6 months [sic].
Conduct and character: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Was imprisoned for varying periods a total of nine times, mainly for "absence":
Imprisoned, 7th-8th of May 1841.
"Absent", and imprisoned, 9th-24th of January 1846.
Imprisoned, 4th-5th of January 1847.
"Absent", and in Barrack Cells, 18th-19th of May 1847.
"In Barrack Cells", 13th-19th of June 1847.
"Absent", being tried and imprisoned, 20th of June — 5th of August 1847.
"Absent", and in Barrack Cells, 27th-28th of August 1847.
"Absent", being tried and imprisoned, 5th of February — 23rd of March 1850. "Absent", being tried and imprisoned from the 29th of March 1850 — 25th of November 1850.
Aged 35 years on discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Is believed to have been wounded at the battle of the Alma, but James Nunnerley, in his Memoirs, states that he was struck by a bullet in the back, but having a cholera belt on it turned the spent bullet so that it went round inside his trouser waist to the front. On putting his hand there, he drew the bullet out, thinking that it had gone right through him, but he was not hurt. (See copy of this story in the "Memoirs" file.)