Born at Tadworth, c.1836.
Enlisted at London on the 29th of July 1853.
Age: 17.
Height: 5'7".
Trade: Clerk.
At Scutari General Depot from the 22nd of September 1854, being sent to rejoin the regiment on the 20th of October but is shown as being back on the Hospital roll from the 21st of October. He remained in the Hospital until the 11th of May 1855, when he was sent to rejoin the regiment in the Crimea.
<4h>1861 CensusHulme Cavalry Barracks, Hulme
G. Nightingale, unmarried, 25, soldier, born St Paul's Middlesex.
Sent to the Depot at Canterbury when the regiment went to India, on the 25th of July 1866.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 30th of July 1866.
Conduct and character: "good". In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
A man of this name is shown in the 1881 Census Returns, a Clerk to Spice Merchant, aged 45...
1881 Census
2, Onslow Villas, Seneca Road, Tadworth, Surrey.
A man of this name is shown in the 1881 Census Returns, a Clerk to Spice Merchant, aged 45, born at Reigate, Surrey, with his wife, Faniah [sic?], 36, born at Clapton, Surrey [?], and seven children, aged from 14 to 1 year and an unmarried sister-in-law.
However, as Chris Poole points out (April 2018), this George Nightingale cannot be our man because he is shown as a clerk to Spice Merchant on the 1861, 1871 & 1891 censuses, and our GN is shown in Hulme Barracks in 1861.
Census information for 1861 kindly provided by Chris Poole.