Born c.1830.
Enlisted at Newbridge on the 16th of January 1850.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: None shown.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.
At Scutari General Hospital from the 22nd of September and sent to rejoin the regiment in the Crimea on the 3rd of October 1854.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 17th of November 1854 for "being drunk on duty." Given 50 lashes and awarded stoppage of pay.
Served with Lord Raglan's Escort Troop during 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain " on the 8th of October 1857.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior. Wounded in action at Sindwaha on the 19th of October 1858.
Transferred to the 19th Hussars [and hence stayed on in India] on the 1st of November 1863. Regimental No. 752.
Embarked for England on the 27th of January 1869.
According to his death certificate he died on the 19th of December 1871 at Shorncliffe Camp, Elham, from "Paralysis, 86 days", aged 42 years. His occupation was given as Private, 19th Hussars.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
A request was sent from the War Office to the East India Company's medallists for him to be issued with a replacement Indian Mutiny medal (with clasp for Central India) "at his own expense" (7/6d.) The medal was sent to the Treasury on the 25th of May 1870.
St. Catherine's House records show the death of a man of this name in the Elham District during the September-December Quarter of 1871.
Died at Shorncliffe on the 19th of December 1871.
According to his death certificate he died at Shorncliffe Camp, Elham, from "Paralysis, 86 days", aged 42 years. His occupation is given as Private, 19th Hussars. A Thomas Wright (who had to make his mark) was present at the death. (See copy of this in the "Certificates" file.)
A check of the Military Cemetery records shows no trace of his having been interred there.
He left no will, and the £2/11/2d in his credits along with his three medals, Crimean, Turkish and Mutiny, together with his Small Book, were sent to his next of kin — Brothers, Patrick and Frederick, living in Dublin.