Born at Thorpe, near Norwich, c.1829.
Enlisted at Norwich on the 21st of December 1848.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Labourer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
At Scutari from the 4th of April — 11th of May 1855.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned, 6th of July — 17th of August 1856.
Transferred to the Army Hospital Corps on the 1st of December 1859.
Re-engaged at Manchester for a further 12 years service on the 13th of February 1861.
Transferred back to the 11th Hussars on the 31st of December 1861. Regimental No. 1422.
From Private to Corporal: 14th of May 1863.
Corporal to Sergeant: 16th of June 1865.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and reduced to Private on the 18th of December 1867.
Discharged from Netley Hospital on the 18th of February 1871: "claimed discharge on completion of second period of service".
Served 23 years 278 days.
At Home, 15 years 5 months. Turkey and the Crimea, 2 years
In India: 6 years 4 months.
Conduct: "very good". In possession of five Good Conduct badges.
Twice entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Twice tried by Court-martial.
To live in Butterton Lane, Canterbury, after discharge.
Awarded a pension of 13d. per day.
Entitled (according to the medal rolls) to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, [sic] Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
His documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with clasps for A.I. and S. only. It is difficult to see why this should be so as he is shown on the Balaclava clasp roll as being awarded it. There is nothing indicating that it may possibly have been a late award.
Further medal information archived.
Attended the first Balaclava Banquet in 1875.
His name was on the 1877 list of members of the Balaclava Commemoration Society, but not on the 1879 revised list.
The 1881 Census shows him as living at No 3 Pinches Court, Parish of St, Mary the Virgin, Dover, Kent, a Fireman, aged 50, born at Norwich, with his wife, Mary A. aged 56 and born at Canley, Kent. No family are shown.
[RM: The GRO registers show an "Isaac Christmas Middleton" as dying in the Dover registration district in the December quarter of 1885 aged 56.]