Born at Lynn Regis, Norfolk,
Enlisted at Westminster on the 7th of February 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Lithographic-printer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.
Sent to the Cavalry Depot on the 19th of April 1854.
From Private to Corporal: 17th of September 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of July 1855,
Resigned to Private, "at his own request", on the 1st of November 1855.
Transferred to the Military Train on the 30th of September 1856, but this was cancelled by War Office Authority, dated the 11th of November 1856. He had returned to the 8th Hussars by the 1st of December.
From Private to Corporal: 5th of October 1857.
Sent to the Depot at Canterbury when the regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign. 1st of October 1857.
Transferred to the Army Hospital Corps at Chatham on the 1st of December 1859, Regimental No. 365, and being promoted to Sergeant on the same day.
He was known to be serving at Aldershot in the month of June 1860 and at Edinburgh in 1861.
Re-transferred back to, and re-engaged in the 8th Hussars for a further term of 12 years' service and again transferred back to the Hospital Corps on the 16th of August 1865, still in the rank of Sergeant
Appointed Colour Sergeant on the 5th of November 1869.
Promoted to Sergeant Major on the 30th of September 1874.
Discharged from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, on the 27th of April 1875.
"He having claimed it on the termination of his second period of limited service."
Served 21 years 66 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 8 months. Malta, 5 years 2 months.
Conduct and character: "very good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge when promoted and would now have had five.
Never entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean and Turkish medals only.
Intending to live at 35, Outford Road, De Beauvoir Town, London, after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
(See details in record of 1126 Robert A. Johnston for a Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol sold in 1906.)
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal (without gratuity) on the 16th of December 1875.
(This award was dated the 1st of April 1874, with a gratuity of £5, but no awards were actually made in 1874. He was ranked as a Colour Sergeant at the time of its receipt.
Lummis and Wynn state that he did not embark for the Crimea, but he is to be found on the Sebastopol clasp roll.
1881 Census
The House, Ditchingham, Norfolk.
A man of this name is shown in the 1881 Census as a Gardener (DS), aged 45, born at Loddon in Norfolk, with his wife Charlotte, a Cook, (DS), aged 43, born in Ellington, Norfolk.