Born in Liverpool.
Enlisted at Liverpool on the 19th of September 1854.
No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a cooper are shown. Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 31st of January 1857. Regimental No. 104.
To India from Canterbury, embarking from Gravesend on the 28th of December 1857.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury Depot on the 24th of August 1867.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Lummis and Wynn state that "He died, probably in 1855."