Born at West Mersea, near Colchester, Essex, c.1833.
Enlisted at Ipswich on the 12th of September 1854.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Clerk.
Appearance: Dark complexion. Hazel eyes. Dk. brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Discharged from Canterbury on the 8th of November 1856, as "Being no longer efficient and upon the Reduction of the Regiment. Suffers from flat feet — the effects of constitutional deformity and which renders him unfit for the cavalry duties of a soldier — or ever likely to become efficient."
Served 2 years 52 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 13 months.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
[RM: The 1861 Census shows him as a "Grocer's assistant, the son of George Grice, a Grocer of 22 St John's Street Colchester. He was single aged 26, his father a widower aged 64. By 1871 he was married and the innkeeper of the Blue Boar in Colchester, and by 1881 a "bill poster" living at 4 Victoria Place.]
[RM: He died in the June quarter of 1886 in Colchester aged 54.]