Born c.1827.
Enlisted at Birmingham on the 11th of May 1846.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: None shown.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H. T. "Shooting Star "on the 25th of April 1854.
Sent to Scutari on the 25th of January 1855, and rejoined the regiment on the 11th of May.
Tried by a District Court-martial on the 28th of June 1855 for "being drunk on Water Guard. " Awarded 50 lashes, 30 days stoppage of pay and to lose "all of his past service".
Sent to the Depot on the 7th of October 1857, when the regiment embarked for India for the Mutiny campaign.
Joined the Regiment in India, landing at Bombay on the 26th of April 1858.
Died at Neemuch, India, on the 1st of June 1863.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
The India Office records show him as dying at Neemuch, India, of "Brain fever" on the 1st of June 1863, and buried on the same day by the "Officers Attending". He was then named as Michael Egans.
His wife, Elizabeth, had died on the 30th of May 1863 from "Acute hepatitis," aged 24 years. She was also buried on the 1st of June by the "Officers Attending".
This must [PB: may?] have been a second wife as a previous entry shows his next-of-kin as "Wife, Mary Egan".