Born at East Cannongate. Scotland, c.1835.
Enlisted at Liverpool on the 19th of December 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Joiner.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Transferred to the 17th Lancers at Hounslow on the 1st of September 1857. Regimental No. 157.
Sent to the Depot at Canterbury on the 1st of October 1857.
"Absent" from the 6th of October and shown as a "deserter" from the 6th of December 1857.
Can find no further trace to March of 1865.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.