Born at Longfohgen, near Perth.
Enlisted at Beverley on the 18th of January 1844.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Farmer's servant.
Fair complexion. Grey eyes. Dk. brown hair.
From Private to Corporal: 15th of December 1852.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Corporal to Sergeant: 15th of October 1855.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 11th of December 1856:
"Unfit for further service and the Reduction of the Army — suffers from varicose veins which precluded him from proceeding with the regiment to the East in 1854 and which now incapacitate him from any further cavalry service. Disease is constitutional and not aggravated by any means on his part."
Served 12 years 293 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 3 months.
Conduct: "very good".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges when promoted to Sergeant.
Granted a pension of 8d. per day for one year from the 10th of December 1856 and was later granted a deferred pension of 5d. per day from the 20th of April 1880.
Pension letters to the 24th of May 1881.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
Aged 34 years on discharge.
1861 Census
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Mochrum, Wigtownshire.
The 1861 Scotland Census (Scotland) shows him living at Mochrum, Wigtownshire, occupation Groom. He was married to Helen Hume, 36. [RM]
1881 Census
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33, Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, Ayrshire.
By 1881 he was a Dock Labourer. [RM]