Born in the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, c.1828, and christened there on the 14th of December 1828, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Lang.
Enlisted at Woodstock on the 1st of May 1846.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 8,"
Trade: Baker.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Blue eyes. Brown hair.
At Scutari, 4th-24th of April 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of December 1855.
Corporal to Sergeant: 6th of March 1856.
"Absent", 12th of August, "Confined", 13th-14th August, and reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 15th of August 1856.
Discharged from Edinburgh on the 18th of December 1865:
"Own request, he having claimed it free, with the right of registry for a deferred pension of 4d. per day upon reaching the age of 50 years."
Served 19 years 153 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months.
Conduct: "that of a good soldier".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Twenty times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Twice tried by Court-martial.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 27th of May 1862 for "making use of abusive language," and imprisoned 27th of May — 30th of July 1862.
To live, c/o. Mrs. Lang, 126 Kentish Town Road, London. NW. (Wife, or mother, not shown.)
Aged 37 years 8 months on discharge.
He received his deferred pension of 4d. per day from the 14th of May 1878.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean and Turkish medals.