Born in the parish of St. Mary's, Nottingham.
Enlisted at Newark on the 1st of December 1854.
Age: 20 years 1 month.
Height: 5' 5".
Trade: Link-maker.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Sandy hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of July 1855.
Transferred to the Depot of the Military Train on the 20th of September 1856, Regimental No. 207, and rejoined the 8th Hussars on the 4th of November 1856, having been found, "Not suitable."
"Deserted" from Dundalk on the 15th of February 1857 and rejoined on the 17th of August 1857.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial, imprisoned from the 19th of August — 5th of October 1857 and "to forfeit, by this conviction for desertion, 2 years 76 days previous service."
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Previous service restored by "War Office Authority dated the 22nd of August 1862."
Re-engaged at Manchester for a further 12 year period of service on the 22nd of August 1867.
Discharged from Newbridge on the 16th of January 1872, as:
"Unfit for further service — General debility.
For the last two years this man has been becoming weaker and weaker and is now unfit for duty. Caused by service in the Crimea and India. Not directly by the service and he has never been wounded — but the general hard service he has gone through.
It will incapacitate him from any but light work or employment, in this climate at least.
Not caused nor aggravated by vice or mis-conduct."
Conduct: "good". Is in possession of three Good Conduct badges.
Ten times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Once tried by Court-martial.
Served 16 years 131 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year
In India: 6 years 4 months.
To live in Spenton Street, Nottingham, after discharge.
Awarded a pension of 9d. per day.
Aged 37 years on discharge.
Next-of-kin, Wife, Eliza Wells.
He is shown on the Regimental Married roll" from the 2nd of May 1858. There were no children in the family up to the end of March 1870.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, Turkish Medal, and the Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
1881 Census
No. 7 Pierrepoint Street, Snenton, Nottinghamshire
The 1881 Census Returns show him aged 48, a Lodger, a Sinker Pie Maker (Hosiery Frames) [sic?], born at Nottingham.
Applied for In-Pension status at Chelsea Royal Hospital on the 27th of September 1895. Told, "Too many applicants with stronger claims."
He applied again on the 31st of July 1897 and at a Board sitting on the 27th of February 1897, was admitted as an In-Pensioner on the 1st of March 1897.
He was then 62 years of age [sic] in receipt of 9d. per day pension, fit for light work, in possession of the Crimean medal, Turkish medal, and the Indian Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India, and had previously been in "The Hospital", Great Freeman Street, Nottingham.
Died at Chelsea on the 9th of May 1898, aged 63 years, and was buried in the Royal Hospital Plot in Brookwood Cemetery, Woking. No headstone was erected.