Born at Stockport, Cheshire, c.1833.
Enlisted at Leeds by the 3rd Light Dragoons for the 4th. on the 16th of January 1855.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Weaver.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of June 1855.
A nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, shows him as being On Duty there from the 4th of November.
Transferred to the 8th Hussars on the 1st of September 1857. Regimental No. 32.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Died at Nusserabad, India, on the 27th of May 1861.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
The India Office records show him as dying at Nusserabad of "Feb. C.C." on the 27th of May 1861, aged 28 years. He was buried on the 28th of May by the Revd. Ward Maule, Chaplain.
The Returned Medal book shows his Mutiny medal being returned to the Mint. No trace of issue. In 1998 it was learnt that his Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, was in the Officers Mess of the Royal Irish Hussars.