Born at Heath [? RM: Oxfordshire.]
[RM: The 1841 Census shows him as the son of Richard and Sarah Horseman of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire.]
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 2nd of May 1849.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Gardener.
In 1851 he is shown with the regiment at Pockthorpe, Norfolk.
From Private to Corporal: 28th of March 1855.
"In confinement", 23rd — 25th of April, and reduced by a Regimental Court-martial on the 25th of April 1855 for "absence".
From Private to Corporal: 5th of February 1858.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Brighton on the 12th of March 1858, upon payment of £20.
Served 9 years 302 days.
Conduct: "very good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Sebastopol and the Turkish medal. (The Balaclava period muster roll, states, "Sick, absent".)
He was later awarded a Special Campaign Pension, (no date shown).
By 1861 he was the Innkeeper at Waddon, Croydon, married to Ellen, aged 18, born New South Wales.]