Born at Carlisle, c.1833.
Enlisted at Liverpool on the 23rd of November 1853.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Lithographic-printer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Lt. brown hair.
"Deserted" from Dublin on the 27th of August 1854 and rejoined on the 9th of October 1954.
Imprisoned by a Regimental Court-martial from the 9th of October — 7th of December 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of April 1855.
Imprisoned by the Civil Power from the 2-23 of May 1857 for "stealing a piece of beef."
>Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 30th of April 1861 as "Medically unfit from disease of the testicle — apparent effects of an injury whilst at work in Aldershot Prison."
Total service to count, 3 years 72 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 7 months.
Aged 27 years 4 months on discharge.
Conduct: "Bad." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges. Three times tried by Court-martial.
Next of kin (in 1854): Father, William Beattie. Living in the parish of St. Michael's, Carlisle.
Awarded a pension of 6d. per day for 6 months.
He was still living in the Carlisle District in 1865.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
1881 Census
78, Rosamund Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Lancashire.
The 1881 Census shows a man of this name living at 78, Rosamund Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Lancashire, as a Boarder, Head of Household (no occupation is shown), aged 45, born in Penrith, Cumberland, with his wife, Mary, a Boarder, Housekeeper, (Domestic) aged 43 and born in Gawsworth, Cheshire. No children are shown.
No information.