Enlisted into the 31st Foot at Armagh on the 1st of February 1847. Regimental No. 2874.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: None shown.
Transferred to the 17th Lancers on the 1st of September 1848.
At the Scutari General Depot from the 26th of October and sent to rejoin the regiment on the 10th of November.
At Scutari again 1st of January — 11th of May 1855.
From Private to Corporal, 1st of December 1855.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 7th of December 1856.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
The July-September 1858 muster rolls show him as being "On Field Service" during this period.
Served in the field at Raghur and Mungrowlie with Captain William Gordon.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of December 1860.
Invalided to England on the 3rd of March 1863.
Died, "At Sea" on the passage home, on the 13th of June 1863.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Lummis and Wynn state "No clasps", but he is shown on the Sebastopol clasp roll.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
The "Returned Medal Book" states "Crimean and Turkish medals returned to the Mint. No trace of issue."
Died, "At Sea", on the passage home from India, 13th of June 1863.