Born at Luton, Bedfordshire.
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 6th of May 1850.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Tried by a District Court-martial at Dublin on the 7th of December 1852 for "Disobedience of orders", and sentenced to 112 days imprisonment, with hard labour.
In hospital at Scutari from the 1st of April and invalided to England on the 10th of June 1855.
A man of this name and regiment (but with no Regimental number shown) was tried by Court-martial at Sheffield on the 12th of January 1856, for "Mutilation", the verdict being given as "Accidental".
Attached to the 4th Light Dragoons from the 1st of August — 30th of September 1857 as servant to Brigade-Major Jenyns.
Transferred to the 18th Hussars at Hounslow on the 28th of February 1858. Regimental No. 375.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned from the 7th-14th of July 1858.
Transferred to the 13th Light Dragoons on the 30th of April 1861. Regimental No. 438.
Discharged, "Limited service expired", from Aldershot on the 10th of September 1862.
Conduct: "good". In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
"Balaclava" clasp sent on "O.C.'s" certificate, dated the 16th of September 1857.
[RM: The 1851 Census shows him at Pockthorpe Barracks, Norwich a Private in the 11th Hussars. In 1861 at Limbury, Luton and in 1901 too.]
The 1881 Census shows him as living at New Mile or Mile End Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, a Farm Labourer, aged 51, born at Luton, Bedfordshire, with his wife, Emma, aged 54, born at Haltwick, Hertfordshire and a son, Edward, H. aged 18, a Grocer's Assistant and born at Luton.
[RM: The GRO registers shown a man of this name dying aged 81 in the September quarter of 1910 in the Luton registration district.]