Born at Otley, near York.
Enlisted at Sheffield by the 7th for the 8th Hussars on the 1st of January 1855.
Age: 23.
Height: 5' 4".
Trade: Stone-Mason.
Embarked from Cork on the 23rd of May and joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of June 1855.
Shown on the muster roll for the July-September Quarter of 1856. There is no entry for him in the October-December Quarter except a pencilled entry at the bottom of the page showing his name, number, and "Why discontinued..."
Transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Military Train on the 31st of December 1856. Regimental No. 211.
Arrived in India aboard the "Belvoir Castle" on the 25th of August 1857.
Transferred to the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry on the 1st of February 1859. Regimental No. 40.
Discharged from Peshwar on the 18th of October 1861.
"Having elected to take his discharge under the operation of the Government of India, Order No.332, dated the 10th of April 1861."
Served 6 years 241 days.
Conduct: "good". Once tried by Court-martial.
In confinement, 25th-31st ofDecember 1855. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned from the 1st of January 1855 — 11th of February 1856.
Aged 29 years 8 months on discharge.
To live in Leeds.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasps for Lucknow and the Relief of Lucknow.
Served in the force under the command of H.E. the Commander-in-Chief at Lucknow and with that under Sir James Outram at Alum Bagh.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.