Enlisted at Dublin on the 5th of June 1837.
Age: 17 years 6 months.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: None shown.
From Private to Corporal: 10th of March 1847.
"Confined", 10th-19th of April and reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 20th of April 1847.
From Private to Corporal: 29th of March 1850.
Corporal to Sergeant: 19th of August 1854.
Appointed to Troop Sergeant Major on the 5th of October 1857.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Died in the Mount Abo Sanatorium [presumably the hill station of what is now called Mount Abu, Rajasthan] on the 5th of July 1858.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
The Returned Medal Book however show: "Mutiny medal returned to the Mint." No trace of issue.
Died in Mount Abo Sanatorium on the 5th of July 1858.
Next of kin: Wife, Maria Ward.
The India Office records show him as dying of "Pneumonia" at Mount Abo on the 4th [sic] of July 1858, aged 35 years, and buried on the same day by the Revd. C.L. Athew, Asst. Chaplain.
His name is recorded on a tablet placed on a wall of St. John's Garrison Church at Meerut. (See also the record of 979 Thomas Hanrahan, 8th Hussars>/a>.)