Born at Allistone, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, c.1830.
Enlisted at Coventry on the 18th of May 1848.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Carpenter.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Dk. brown hair.
The Balaclava period muster roll states: "Major-General's Orderly".
On "Letter Duty" in the Crimea from the 1st of April — 30th of June 1855.
Left at Scutari in the General Hospital, attached to the 5th Dragoon Guards, when the regiment returned to England.
Discharged from Chichester on the 21st of February 1871, at "own request, free to pension, after 24 years service".
Served 24 years 133 days. In Bulgaria 3 months and in the Crimea, 1 year 10 months.
Conduct: "very good". In possession of three C.C. badges.
Eighteen times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Once tried by Court-martial.
Tried and imprisoned by a Regimental Court-martial for "being absent" from the 10-11 of April 1860 and imprisoned from the 13th of April -10 of May 1860.
Aged 43 years 3 months on discharge.
Awarded a pension of 1/- per day.
To live at Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Living in the Derby Pension District from discharge, but in the Stafford District from the 1st of December 1872.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with four clasps. Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Died in the Stafford Pension District on the 5th of July 1873.
St. Catherine's House registers show a man of this name as dying at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, during the July-September quarter of 1873, aged 44 years.
His death certificate shows that he died at Wall Ash, Mayfield, Staffordshire, on the 5th of July 1873, aged 44 years, a "Pensioner in the 11th Hussars." from "Typhoid Fever." A Thomas Jackson, of the same address, (who had to make his mark) was present at, and the informant of his death. (There is a copy of the death certificate in the 11th Hussars "Certificates" file.)