Enlisted at Newbridge on the 31st of January 1849 by "Special Enlistment", under the Authority of the Horse Guards.
Age: 15.
Height: 4' 9".
Trade: None.
Appointed to Trumpeter on the 24th of May 1852.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 11th of April 1853 and placed in the Provost Cells for 30 days.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Mary Anne" on the 15th of April 1854.
Sent to Scutari on the 19th of December 1854 and rejoined the regiment on the 25th of February 1855.
Sent to Scutari again on the 1st of July 1855 and was invalided to England on the 28th of September 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Appointed to Trumpeter on the 1st of January 1858.
Reduced to Private on the 1st of June 1869.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Died in Dublin on the 21st of January 1871.
He died in the Arbor Hill Hospital at Dublin of "Bright's disease, for several months". He was shown as being "married, a private in the 8th Hussars, and 38 years of age." (There is a copy of his death certificate in the "Certificates" file.)
From the Register of Burials in the Garrison Cemetery, Arbour Hill, Dublin, held by the Representative Church Body Library, Dublin.
"Page 126. Entry No. 1006. James Barter. Private, 8th Hussars. Died Arbour Hill Hospital. [No cause of death is shown.] Buried January 25th 1871, aged 38 years."
[No officiating Minister is shown, but in the usual column for this is R.C. (Roman Catholic).]