Born at Jedborough, Roxborough, Scotland.
Enlisted into the 7th Hussars at York on the 9th of April 1842. Regimental. No. 729.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Tea-dealer.
From Private to Corporal: 2nd of June 1844.
Corporal to Sergeant: 18th of May 1846.
Transferred to the 17th Lancers at the Brighton Depot on the 1st of August 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 28th of May 1855.
Deputy Provost Marshal at Varna and also at Ismid.
Appointed to Troop Sergeant Major on the 7th of September 1857.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
He is not shown on the musters for July-September of 1858 which show the service movements of the regiment during the whole of this period.
The India Office records show him as having died from "apoplexy" at Kirkee on the 7th of May 1858. He was buried on the 8th of May by the Revd. Francis F. Reynolds, Chaplain.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
The India Office records show him as having died from "apoplexy" at Kirkee on the 7th of May 1858. He was buried on the 8th of May by the Revd. Francis F. Reynolds, Chaplain.