Born at Dodsworth, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, c.1835.
Enlisted at York by the 7th Hussars for the 8th, on the 27th of December 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Coal-miner.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Blue eyes. Lt. brown hair.
Embarked for the Crimea on the 24th of May and joined the regiment on the 15th of June 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
From Private to Shoeing-Smith: 7th of June 1864.
Discharged, "time expired", from Weedon on the 28th of December 1866.
Re-enlisted into the 6th Dragoon Guards at Chichester on the 8th of August 1867. Regimental number, 865.
Aged 31 years 1 month.
Former service of 12 years in the 8th Hussars allowed to reckon towards pension from the 29th of December 1866 under the Army Enlistment Act, 1867 — Vide War Office Authority, dated the 2nd of January 1868.
Discharged from Dublin on the 29th of July 1878: "Claimed, on the termination of his second period of engagement."
Served 20 years 357 days. In Turkey and the Crimea 10 months
In India: 6 years.
Conduct: "very good".
In possession of four Good Conduct badges and would have had five on the 8th of August 1878.
Never entered in the Regimental Defaulter's book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 40 years 1 month on discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean, Turkish, Indian Mutiny, and Long Service and Good Conduct medals.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal (without gratuity) on the 1st of January 1874.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
To live at No. 26 Duke Street, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.