Born in Norfolk.
Enlisted at Norwich on the 28th of November 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Cork-cutter.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Cork on the 16th of July 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain", 8th of October 1857.
The July-September 1858 muster rolls show him as being "On Field Service" from September.
Re-engaged for 12 years further service at Aldershot, 3rd of December 1866.
Sent to Sandhurst, as a servant, on the 23rd of October 1867.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Hamilton, Scotland, on the 15th of January 1870. Payment of £8.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.