Enlisted at Dublin on the 1st of September 1849.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: None shown.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of June 1854.
Corporal to Sergeant: 11th of December 1854.
Sent to Scutari, 14th of December 1854.
Died at Scutari on the 10th of January 1855.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol.
A roll was published in the "Balaclava Commemoration Number" of the 17th/21st Lancers Regimental Journal in 1854 claiming to list all those of the regiment who had ridden in the Charge. A "Corporal J. Bushman" was named among these.