Born in Stepney, London.
Enlisted at London into the 15th Hussars on the 13th of June 1851 and was a recruit at the Maidstone Depot from the 17th of June. Regimental No. 1676.
No other enlistment details apart from his trade a labourer are shown.
"Absent without leave", from the 17th of April — 12th of May 1852. In prison at Fort Clarence from the 17-25 of May 1852.
Embarked for India on the 25th of August 1852.
Transferred to the 11th Hussars on the 1st of November 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
>Discharged from Canterbury on the "Reduction of the Regiment" on the 7th of November 1856.
Served 5 years 103 days.
Conduct: "good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
[RM: His Crimean medal is noted in the returned medal book ref WO100/106 as being returned to the mint — "found by police"]