Born at Maidstone, Kent, c.1834.
Enlisted at Brighton on the 2nd of July 1854.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Pipe-maker.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 20th of June 1855.
On the rear party when leaving the Crimea, being attached to the 8th Hussars from the 23rd of April — 15th of May 1856, and returning with them to England.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 7th of October 1857.
The musters for July-September of 1858 show him as being "On Field Service" during the whole of this period.
Served in the field at Rajghur and Mungrowlee with Captain William Gordon.
Invalided from India on the 23rd of January 1863 and was on the Depot roll at Canterbury from the 14th of May 1863.
Discharged, "time expired", from Aldershot on the 1st of October 1866.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
1871 Census
Bourne Cottage, Tonbridge.
Charles Green, 37, lodger, Pipemaker, Maidstone.
Martha, 28, Dressmaker, Waybourne.
Four children shown: Ann, 6, Charles, 5, Edmund, 3, John, 6 months.
1881 Census
17, Imperial Terrace, Maidstone, Kent.
The 1881 Census shows him as Charles H. Green, aged 47, a Pipe maker, Tobacco, born at Maidstone, Kent, with his wife, Martha, A., 38, born at Weybourne, Norfolk, and eight children: four boys and four girls, aged from 16 to 1 years. The eldest, a daughter, was a Dressmaker.
1891 Census
19, Stanley Road Tunbridge Wells.
Charles Green, 60, Pipemaker, Maidstone.
Martha, 48.
Eight children shown: Charles, 24, Edmund, 23, Rose, 19, Ben, 18, Catherine, 10, Albert, 8, Mabel, 5, and George, 1.
Census information for 1871 & 1891 kindly provided by Chris Poole.