Born at Woolwich, Kent.
Enlisted at Brighton on the 20th of January 1851.
Age: 18 years 6 months.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Musician.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Sent to Scutari on the 11th of December 1854 and invalided to England on the 23rd of March 1855.
Sent to the Depot at Maidstone when the regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign. 1st of October 1857.
From Private to Trumpeter: 1st of May 1860.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 12th of November 1861, as:
"Unfit for further service. Recommended to be discharged in consequence of Phthisis Pulmonary — the result of constitutional pre-disposition combined with his military service."
Served 10 years 271 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 10months.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 29 years 3 months on discharge.
Granted a pension of 8d. per day for 3 years.
To live at No. 1 Crawley Gardens, Pimlico, London.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with clasp for the Alma and the Turkish Medal.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol.
Died in the No. 1 London Pension District on the 26th of September 1864.
A son, William John, entered the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea on the 26th of November 1865, aged 7 years and 10 months.
His father, John Wiltshire of the 8th Hussars, was shown as "Dead," and his mother, Anna, as "Still alive."
He was "Returned to his mother" on the 5th of February 1872.