Born at Arran, Co. Kildare, c.1833.
Enlisted at Newbridge on the 18th of February 1851 by Farrier Major John Dyer.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.
Slightly wounded in action during the Charge but was sent to Scutari on the 26th of October 1854.
Invalided from Scutari to England on the 24th of March 1855.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Dept on the 16th of October 1855, as:
"Unfit for further service from wound of left heel at Balaclava."
Served 5 years 202 days.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Aged 23 years 7 months on discharge.
Awarded a pension of 7d. per day, but this was increased to 8d. on the 20th of January 1869. A Medical Board subsequently found "No grounds for further increase", but an increase to 9d. per day was made on the 5th of September 1881.
To live in Glasgow after discharge, but he was in the Paisley Pension District from the 1st of May 1858, back to Glasgow in the 1st of October 1859, and was still there up to 1875.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, and Sebastopol.
The muster roll for the October-December Quarter of 1855 states, "This man is now in the Glasgow Police Force", but a search of the records of the old City of Glasgow Police Force shows no trace of him.