Born in London.
Enlisted at London on the 18th of January 1840.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Grocer.
1851 Census
Pockthorpe Cavalry Barracks, Norwich.
William Hampton, 29, unmarried, Private, born London.
From Private to Corporal: 12th of May 1854.
Died, "of cholera", in the Crimea on the 21st of September 1854.
Entitled (according to the medal rolls) to the Crimean medal with clasp for the Alma only. Lummis and Wynn also credit him with the clasp for Sebastopol but he is not so shown on the clasp list.
Died, "of cholera", in the Crimea on the 21st of September 1854.
Next of kin: Mother, Sarah Hampton, living in London.