Born c.1824.
Enlisted at Maryborough, Co. Leix (Laois), Ireland, on the 11th of June 1847.
Age: 23.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Labourer.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Shooting Star" on the 25th of April 1854.
Transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards on the 31st of December 1856. Regimental No. 239.
Invalided from India to England on the 2nd of December 1858.
Joined the Depot at Canterbury from the Chatham Invalid Depot on the 17th of March 1859.
Died at Canterbury on the 25th of December 1869.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Can find no trace on the 2nd Dragoons Mutiny medal roll. (Lummis and Wynn credit him as having the Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India, but the 2nd Dragoon Guards, in which he was serving at the time, were generally entitled to the Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.)
Died at Canterbury on the 25th of December 1869.
Next of kin: Wife, Marion Neille, to whom he sent money from the Crimea.
There were three children in the family at this time, but only one son, James, born at Kildare in 1852, is recorded in the Army Chaplain's Baptismal Registers at St. Catherine's House.
The records of the Old Military Cemetery at Canterbury show that he was buried there from the Military Hospital on the 28th of December 1869, aged 45 years. The ceremony was conducted by Father R. Power, R.C. Chaplain.