Enlisted at Brighton on the 23rd of November 1854.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: None shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of October 1857.
Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of September 1858.
Appointed to Troop Sergeant Major on the 6th of February 1862.
Embarked for India aboard the "Serapia" from Portsmouth on the 15th of October 1867.
Promoted to Regimental Sergeant Major on the 1st of April 1870.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Died at Meerut, India, on the 8th of June 1872.
His wife, Fanny, whom he had married on the 14th of October 1862, was still with the regiment at the end of September 1872. There were no recorded children.
The India Office records show him as dying of "Sunstroke" (or Apoplexy) at Meerut on the 8th of June 1872, aged 35 years. He was buried in the Meerut Cemetery on the 9th of June by the Revd. B. S. Day, Chaplain.
A memorial stone erected in the Cantonment Cemetery bears the inscription:
"Erected by the Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars in memory of the Non-Commissioned Officers, Men, Women and Children who died since its arrival in India, November 1867.
Regimental Sergt. Major. 1.
Troop Sergeant Majors. 6.
Corporals. 2.
Trumpeters. 1
Privates. 42 .
Women 12.
Children. 58.
The regiment had actually been at Meerut from the 10th of March 1868 and leaving in early January, 1873. See photograph of this memorial in the 4th Hussar files.