Born at Reading, Berkshire, c.1828.
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 15th of December 1846.
Age: 17 years 10 months.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
"Deserted" from Hounslow on the 27th of May 1849 and rejoined the regiment on the 19th of August 1849, being confined in "Barrack Cells" until the 23rd of August. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 24th of August 1849 and was sentenced "to be confined in the District Military Prison of Fort Clarence until the 14th of November 1849, and to lose all of his previous service by this conviction..." This lost service was restored by War Office Authority dated the 22nd of March 1856.
His next of kin was shown at this time as his father, Frederick Bunce, living in Reading, Berkshire.
Transferred to the 8th Hussars at Hounslow on the 13th of September 1857, as Regimental No. 93.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Served at Kotah, 22nd-30th of March, and at Gwalior, 19th-23rd of June 1858.
From Private to Corporal: 2nd of October 1858.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 15th of February 1860.
Died at Meerut, India, on the 27th of February 1862.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
The Returned Medal book shows "Crimean and Mutiny medals returned to the Mint. No trace of issue."
The India Office records show him as dying from "Febris Remittens" [PB: fever with big temperature swings] at Meerut on the 27th of February 1862, at the age of 31 years. He was buried on the 28th of February by the Revd. John Sharkey, Chaplain, in St. John's Churchyard.