Born at Bessingham, Norfolk.
Enlisted at London on the 19th of February 1855.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
Absent from the 11th of June — 31st of August 1856.
Transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards at Brighton on the 1st of March 1857, his Regimental No. being 328.
Is shown as "James Hewins." on the 2nd Dragoon's muster rolls.
Transferred to the 21st Hussars (in India) on the 1st of December 1861. Regimental No. 389.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury Depot on the 15th of March 1867.
Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941 Samuel Briggs.)
Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855, but is specially entitled to a Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment in the Expedition to Eupatoria during the month of October of that same year... Camp Aldershot, 16th of November 1857.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.
Served at Nusseratpore and Koorlee.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
A Mutiny medal, with clasp for Lucknow, and named to "J. Hewins. (As he appears on the medal roll) 2nd Dragoon Gds." was offered in a Liverpool Coins and Medal's list (No. 18) in 1980.