Enlisted at Edinburgh on the 29th of August 1854.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: None shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of August 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
The musters for July - September 1858 show him as being "On Field Service" during September of the period.
In action against the rebels at Zeerapore on the 29th of December 1858 and at Baroda on the 1st of January 1859.
From Private to Corporal: 31st of July 1862.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 15th of May 1863.
From Private to Corporal: 20th of January 1865.
Reduced to Private, by a Regimental Court-martial, on the 15th of November 1865.
Discharged, "time expired," from Colchester on the 26th of July 1866.
Conduct: "good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge. Twice tried by Court-martial.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp.