Born at Charlton, London.
Enlisted into the East India Company's service at London on the 2nd of June 1837.
Age: 20 years 10 months.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Labourer.
Sallow complexion. Blue eyes. Lt. brown hair.
Volunteered from the East India Company Artillery into the 4th Light Dragoons on the 19th of June 1837.
Sent to the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury when the regiment left for the Crimea on the 13th of July 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 28th of April 1855 and was sent to Scutari on the 23rd of October 1855.
A nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, shows him as being In Hospital there from the 4th of November.
Invalided to England on the 13th of January 1856.
Discharged from Cahir on the 1st of April 1862.
"Free, at own request after 24 years' service."
Served 24 years 14 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year
In India: 3 years.
Conduct: "Bad". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges. Six times tried by Court-martial.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 3rd of September 1842 for "absenting himself without leave." Sentenced to 40 days imprisonment, with hard labour.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial for "absence" on the 20th of July 1844 and sentenced to 20 days "solitary confinement."
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial for "absence" on the 1st of September 1845 and sentenced to 40 days imprisonment.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial for "absence" on the 31st of December 1845. and sentenced to 40 days imprisonment.
Tried by a District Court-martial for "absence" on the 24th of April 1848 and sentenced to 56 days imprisonment with hard labour and to lose 1d. per day for six months.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial for "absence" on the 9th of January 1850 and sentenced to 40 days imprisonment.
Aged 44 years 11 months on discharge.
To live, C/o. Mrs. Croft, 10 Arthur Street, New Oxford Street, London.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean and Turkish medals.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Died in the No. 1 London Pension District during June of 1869.
St. Catherine's House records the death aged 62 years, of a man of this name in the Lambeth District of London during the July-September Quarter of 1869.