Born c.1829.
Enlisted at Dublin on the 24th of April 1847.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: None shown.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Shooting Star" on the 25th of April 1854.
Tried by a District-Court-martial at Nottingham on the 18th of December 1852 for "habitual drunkenness" and sentenced to 112 days' imprisonment.
Tried by a District Court-martial on the 25th of November 1855 for "Disgraceful Conduct. Habitual drunkenness and discharging a carbine on the high road".
He was given 50 lashes, awarded a stoppage of 1d. per day for six months and to forfeit all past and future service towards pension.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 24th of November 1855 for "breaking out of hospital and returning drunk". Given 50 lashes and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. He is also shown as forfeiting "all past and future service" by this conviction. The sentence of imprisonment was remitted.
Next of kin (in 1854): Wife, Eliza Edge.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Died of syphilis in India on the 4th of July 1862.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah.
Died in India on the 4th of July 1862.
The India Office records show him as dying from "syphilis" at Nusserabad on the 4th of July 1862, aged 32 years. He was buried on the 5th of July by the Revd. J. B. O. Aquilar, Chaplain.