Born at Manchester, c.1835.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 20th of November 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of July 1855.
"Absent" from Dundalk from the 9th of September to the 6th of October 1856.
Tried by a District Court-martial on the 10th of October and sentenced to 112 days' imprisonment with hard labour and to be marked with the letter "D".
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Re-engaged for 12 years' further service at Birmingham on the 22nd of February 1867.
Died at Dundalk, Ireland, on the 15th of October 1869.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Died at Dundalk, Ireland, on the 15th of October 1869.
Next of kin: Wife, Rosanna Leek, living in New Town, Manchester.
He is shown on the Regimental "Married roll," from the 8th of February 1863 and his widow and one child were granted rail travel to return to Manchester.
(A "Martha Leek" is show in the Army Chaplain's Baptismal Registers as having been born into the 8th Hussars in 1865.)