Enlisted at Coventry on the 31st of January 1850.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: None shown.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. Great Britain on the 8th of October 1857.
Invalided to England on the 26th of May 1858, but returned to India, arriving at Madras on the 10th of October and joining the regiment at Secunderbad on the 16th of December 1860.
On passage to England on the 28th of January 1863 and at the Maidstone Depot from the 1st of May.
Discharged from Maidstone, "time expired", on the 7th of May 1863.
Served 12 years 315 days.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava, Inkerman, Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1879.
In an Account and Address Book used by James W. Wightman when he was the Secretary of the Balaclava Society, the remarks in the Address column were "Not known", a letter to him at Luton, sent on the 16th of January 1880 being "Returned" and a further letter is shown as being sent to Sergeant Major W. Barker on the 13th of February 1880, "asking if he knew Waller's address." His name is crossed through as though "Deceased", but there is no indication when.
1881 Census
13 Church Place, Paddington, London.
A "Frederick Waller", aged 49 years, born in East Horsley, Surrey, is shown as a Cab Driver living with his wife, Emma, aged 47, [birthplace illegible], and six children, aged from 16 years to 8 years.
Death registered
The death of a "Frederick Waller", aged 60, is shown in the GRO records in the June Quarter 1889 in the Paddington registration district of London. [RM]