Born at East Retford, Nottinghamshire, c.1832.
Enlisted at Newark-upon-Trent on the 27th of January 1855.
Age: 23.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
Appearance: Fair complexion. Blue eyes. Brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of July 1855.
Next of kin (in 1855): Wife, Mary Jubb.
He must have been married before enlistment; normally, married men were not enlisted, so he probably concealed this fact at the time.
Transferred to the Military Train on the 20th of September 1856, Regimental No. 203, but he rejoined the 8th Hussars on the 4th of November 1856 on "being found unsuitable." He is named as "Jupe" in the Military Train musters.
Discharged from Dundalk, "on the Reduction of the Regiment", on the 15th of July 1857.
Served 2 years 98 days.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
1881 Census
22, Belford Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire.
The 1881 Census shows him as a Painter, aged 45, born at East Retford, Nottinghamshire, with his wife, Eliza, 46, born at Esher, Surrey, and 3 sons aged 15 to 8 years. The eldest was a Painter, the second an Errand Boy, and the youngest a Scholar.
[He must have married again, his wife being of a different name in 1855 and 1881.