Born at Aldborough (or Aldburgh) Suffolk.
Enlisted at Woolwich on the 19th of January 1852.
Age: 16 years 11 months.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Labourer.
Sent to Scutari on the 26th of October and rejoined the regiment on the 14th of December 1854.
He was at the General Hospital, Scutari, from the 18th of August 1855 and sent to England on the 7th of September.
Transferred to the 8th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of September 1857. Regimental No. 24.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Transferred to the 20th Hussars (in India) on the 1st of November 1863. Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 26th of April 1866.
Served 12 years 362 days. Conduct: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah.
1881 Census
The 1881 Census shows him as living in the High Road, West Wickham, Kent. a Railway Servant, aged 48, born at Snape, Suffolk, with his wife, Mahala [sic] aged 43 and born at Middleton, Suffolk, No children are shown.