Born c.1835.
Enlisted at London on the 30th of July 1853.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: None shown.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Medora" on the 27th of April 1854.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Invalided from India on the 1st of February 1859.
From Private to Corporal: 27th of February 1865.
He was shown on the Regimental "Married roll" from the 5th of July 1864 and there were three children in the family by the 30th of March 1869.
Reduced from Private to Corporal: by a Regimental Court-martial on the 30th of July 1865.
Discharged, "invalided", from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, on the 23rd of June 1869.
Next of kin: Wife, Susanne [sic] Hawkins.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Lummis and Wynn state, "Not on medal roll", but he is to be found on the Sebastopol clasp list.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
He was awarded a pension of 1/- per day.
He was living in the Chatham Pension District in 1875.