Born at Lurgan, Ireland, c.1835.
Enlisted at Dublin on the 31st of May 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Shuttle-maker.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of April 1855.
Confined from the 23rd of February 1857, tried at Dundalk by a District Court-martial for "Disgraceful Conduct" for an un-recorded offence on the 2nd of March and sentenced to 112 days' imprisonment.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Died in the Regimental Hospital at Goortan, India, from "acute dysentery" on the 21st of March 1858.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
In a "List of Unclaimed Medals sent to the Principal Ordnance Officer at Woolwich to be melted down", dated the 3rd of November 1897, both his Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and his Turkish medal were sent — but the Turkish Medal was noted as "Retained".
Died in the Regimental Hospital at Goortan, India, from "acute dysentery" on the 21st of March 1858.
Next of kin: Brother, Ludwig Hamilton, serving in the 3rd Battalion Royal Artillery.