Born in Marylebone, London, c.1835.
Enlisted at London on the 19th of August 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Servant.
Features: Fresh complexion. Blue eyes. Brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.
From Private to Corporal, 1st of July 1857.
Corporal to Sergeant, 7th of September 1857.
Sent to the Depot at Canterbury on the 1st of October 1858.
Embarked for India, arriving at Bombay on the 10th of May and joining the regiment on the 24th of May 1858.
The musters for July-September of 1858 show him as being "On Field Service" during September of this period.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and reduced to Private on the 23rd of May 1865 for being "absent, without leave".
To Aldershot on the 2nd of March 1866 and attached to the 8th Hussars as a Rough-rider.
Re-engaged at Aldershot for a further 12 years' service on the 15th of August 1856.
Shown on the Regimental "Married roll" from the 1st of June 1866. Wife, Jane Lewis.
Three children of the name of Lewis are shown in the Army Chaplains' Registers as having been born into the 17th Lancers, Christopher T., at Secunderbad in 1861, Henry A., at Secunderbad in 1864 and Florence E. at Omagh in 1869.
Attached to the 15th Hussars as a Rough-Rider in April of 1867.
From Private to Corporal, 9th of December 1867.
Corporal to Sergeant, 14th of February 1871.
Attached to the Northumberland and Newcastle Yeomanry from Dundalk and was transferred to the Permanent Staff of this regiment to "complete service to pension", on the 14th of February 1874.
Discharged from Dublin on the 7th of September 1875 at "Own request, after completion of second period of engagement."
Served 21 years 20 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year
In India: 6 years 9 months.
Conduct: "very good."
In possession of two Good Conduct badges when promoted to Sergeant
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
His documents however, besides confirming the award of the Crimean and Turkish medals, also show him as being entitled to the Mutiny medal.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 22nd of March 1873.
To live at No. 72 Blackett Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Co. Northumberland, after discharge.
[RM: the death of a man of this name, aged 56, is show in the Newcastle upon Tyne District in the September quarter of 1894.]