Born at Marylebone, London.
Enlisted at London on the 6th of July 1854.
No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a black-smith are shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Hounslow on the 10th of August 1857. Regimental No. 125.
Embarked for India aboard the "Greenwich" on the 27th of August 1857.
Served in the field in Oude, East Indies, from the 4th of February — 1st of December 1858, including the siege of Lucknow, 2-16 March 1858.
Imprisoned by a Regimental Court- martial from the 1-9 of October 1858.
Discharged at Sialkote, India, on the 16th of January 1867. (It is not known if he remained in India or returned to England.)
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.
[RM: Nothing conclusively him in any Census records, apart from one man born at Northgate Canterbury in 1837, who appears on the 1851 Census.]