Born at Christchurch, Hampshire.
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 8th of November 1849.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Servant.
On "Letter Duty" from the 1st of April — 30th of June 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 17th of March 1857.
Corporal to Sergeant: 6th of July 1857:
"Deserted" on the 28th of June 1858 and rejoined the regiment on the 17th of February 1859. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and reduced to Pte.
To Woolwich, attached to the R.H.A. on the 20th of June 1861. Rejoined the regiment at Manchester on the 1st of December 1861.
Discharged, "by claim", from Curragh Camp on the 15th of September 1863.
Served 12 years 283 days.
Conduct and character: "good". In possession of two G.C badges. Next of kin (in 1854): wife, Sarah Bury.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
His name appeared in the 1877 list of members of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1877 but not in the 1879 revised list.
[RM: A man named as "Phillip Hy Bury" appears in the 1871 Census in the Lodge at the Union Poorhouse Buildings, Armley. He is described as a "RW Signalman", but his birthplace is shown as "City, London"]