Born at Westbury, Wiltshire, c.1833.
Enlisted at Trowbridge on the 6th of February 1854.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Carpenter.
Sent to the Cavalry Depot on the 19th of April 1854.
"Confined" from the 19th of March 1855. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 21st of March, being given 50 lashes and sentenced to three months imprisonment.
"Confined" 19th — 21st ofJanuary 1856, tried by a Regimental Court-martial for "making away with an item of regimental necessaries," and given 50 lashes.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of June 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857,
Discharged, "time expired", from Aldershot on the 19th of February 1866. Served 12 years 12 days.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge. Twice tried by Court-martial.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Lummis and Wynn state that "he did not serve in the Crimea," but his name is to be found on the Sebastopol clasp roll as being so entitled. They also give his Regtl, No. as 1218.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
He was awarded a Special Campaign Pension (no date shown.)
1881 Census
Queenford, Calne, Wiltshire.
The 1881 Census shows a man of this name as living in a General Labourer, aged 50, born in Calne, with his wife, Jane, aged 43, born in Liddiard Millicent, Wiltshire, and a daughter, aged 4.