Born at Stockport, Cheshire.
Enlisted at Liverpool on the 12th of January 1855.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Boatman.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Brown eyes. Brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.
Discharged from the Chatham Invalid Depot on the 27th of July 1858.
"Has varicose veins of the right leg and tendency to ulceration."
Awarded a pension of 6d. per day for one year "final", from the 6th of July 1858.
Served 3 years 6 months.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 10 months.
Conduct,"good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Living in Stockport after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
1881 Census
A man of this name is shown in the 1881 Census Returns as living at No. 29 Chorlton on Medlock, a Vanman. aged 44, born at Winsford, Cheshire, with his wife, Jane, aged 37, born at Matlock, Derbyshire and 4 children, aged from 9 years to 2 days old.