Born c.1832.
Enlisted at Sheffield by the 7th Hussars for the 8th, being a volunteer from the 2nd Battalion West Yorks. Militia, on the 20th of December 1854.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Named as "George" Elmer on one medal roll but as "James" on another, although his Christian name on enlistment was given as George. His surname is also given as "Elmer" on some rolls.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of May 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 16th of May 1855.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 29th of January 1856 for "being drunk at stables."
"Deserted" from Dundalk on the 31st of December 1856 and rejoined the regiment on the 9th of January 1857.
"Deserted" from Dundalk on the 29th of March 1857.
Can find no further trace to 1879.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Lummis and Wynn state, "Not on medal roll," but he is to be found on the Sebastopol clasp roll, as a Corporal.