Born at Poplar, London, c.1818.
Enlisted at Westminster on the 1st of January 1839.
Age: 21 years 5 months.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
At Scutari from the 29th of November 1854 until rejoining the regiment on the 11th of May 1855.
Discharged from Newbridge on the 3rd of March 1863.
"Free, at own request after 24 years' service."
Served 24 years 14 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months
In India: 1 year 9 months.
Conduct: "a good soldier".
In possession of five Good Conduct badges.
Twice entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Once tried by Court-martial.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 28th of February 1848 and sentenced to "30 days' imprisonment and loss of beer money for the same period."
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean and Turkish medals.
Name shown as "Edmunds" on the medal roll.
Awarded a pension of 1/1d. per day.
At discharge, he said his intended place of residence was "At Captain William's" [sic?], Pleasant Place, Piers Road, Littlehampton, Sussex.
Died in the Brighton Pension District on the 6th of July 1866.
He is shown in the St. Catherine's House records as dying in the Worthing District, aged 49 years, during the July-September quarter of 1866.