Born at Rosecommon [presumably Roscommon?], c.1825
Enlisted at Longford on the 27th of February 1845.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 11".
Trade: Hat-maker.
Appearance: Sallow complexion. Blue eyes. Brown hair.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned, 21st-22nd of November 1850.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.
Served in Lord Raglans Escort Troop during 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
From Private to Corporal: 19th of November 1861.
Confined from the 25th of January and reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 28th of January 1862.
Discharged from Curragh Camp on the 23rd of July 1872.
"Own request, free with pension after 24 years' service."
Served 26 years 107 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months
In India: 6 years 7 months,.
Conduct: "very good".
In possession of five Good Conduct badges.
Eighteen times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Twice tried by Court-martial.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol, the Turkish Medal, and the Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Suffered "slight bayonet wounds in both arms at the action of Gwalior on the 5th of September 1858."
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Aged 46 years 3 months on discharge.
He is shown on the Regimental "Married roll" from the 5th of August 1856. His wife's name was Julia, and there were four children in the family in 1865.
To live at No. 2, Taylor Street, Blackburn, Lancashire,
When he entered the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an In-Pensioner on the 1st of April 1896 he was stated to be 70 years of age, was "unable to earn ... had no wife or family" and had formerly been in the Workhouse at Blackburn.
Died in Chelsea Royal Hospital on the 19th of August 1900, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Woking.
No headstone was erected.