Born at Windsor, Berkshire, c.1829.
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 19th of October 1849.
(Named as "Alfred Edell" on enlistment.)
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Servant.
At Scutari from the 3rd of April until invalided to England on the 3rd of June 1855.
Transferred to the 18th Hussars at Hounslow on the 28th of February 1858. Regimental No. 376.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of June 1858.
Corporal to Sergeant: 5th of March 1860.
Discharged, "having completed 12 years service," from Brighton on the 26th of October 1861.
Conduct: "good". In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Balaclava period muster roll states, "In Hospital".
[RM: In 2006 contact was made with a descendant, Kevin Evans (3x greatgrandson), seeking info on Henry Edell. He provided the following, for which we are most grateful.]
Henry Edell, born about 1830 in Windsor, Berkshire. Died in 1886 in London.
Married to Harriet Bagnell in 1855 in Loughborough, Leicestershire.
They had three children:
William Henry Edell, born 1858 in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Harriet Esther Edell, born 1868 in Piccadilly, Middlesex.
Georgina Caroline Edell, born 1870 in Piccadilly, Middlesex.
On the 1851 Census Henry can be seen as a soldier at the Queen's Barracks in Ipswich, Suffolk.
On the 1861 Census Henry can be seen as a Non-commissioned officer holding the rank of Sergeant. Stationed at Aldershot, Surrey.
After leaving the Army Henry became a servant and lived at 42, Page Street, St John, Westminster, London.
According to Kevin Evans, HE died in 1886 in London. No information about burial.