Born in London.
Enlisted at London on the 12th of May 1854.
No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a mathematical instrument maker are shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of April 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of March 1858.
Deserted from Manchester on the 13th of December 1860 and posted as a "deserter" from the 13th of January 1861.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Can find no further trace to March of 1875.