Enlisted at York on the 12th of May 1854.
No other enlistment details are shown.
Confessed before a Regimental Board to previously belonging to the 2nd Lancaster Volunteers. He was allowed to continue serving in the 17th Lancers but sentenced to lose 1d. per day for 18 months.
Embarked from Brighton on the 8th of April 1855 and joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of April 1855.
He is shown on a nominal roll of officers and men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, as being on On Duty there from the 28th of July.
Invalided to England on the 19th of November 1855.
Prisoner "in cells" from the 15th and was tried by a District Court-martial on the 15th of February 1856 for "habitual drunkenness" and sentenced to 42 days' imprisonment with hard labour and stoppage of 1d. per day for six months.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
The musters for July-September of 1858 show him as being "On Field Service" from September of this period.
In action against the rebels at Zeerapore on the 29th of December 1858 and at Baroda on the 1st of January 1859.
Invalided to England on the 24th of August 1859.
Discharged, "time expired", from Aldershot on the 24th of August 1866.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
To live in Bradford after discharge.