Born in Flint.
Enlisted at London on the 28th of March 1854.
Trade: Labourer.
No other enlistment details are shown.
Sent to the Cavalry Depot on the 19th of April 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 28th of October 1854.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
From Private to Corporal: 25th of May 1858.
Corporal to Sergeant: 28th of May 1859.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 11th of July 1861.
Discharged, "time expired", from Aldershot on the 13th of April 1866.
Served 12 years 16 days.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah.
Lummis and Wynn state that he "did not embark for the Crimea", but he is to be found on the Sebastopol clasp roll. They also name him as "Thomas John Jones".