Born c.1818.
Enlisted at Leeds on the 29th of September 1840.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 10".
Trade: None shown.
Died, "of disease", in Camp in the Crimea on the 23rd of September 1854.
The Regimental History states that he died "of cholera".
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol.
His name appears on a memorial in Leeds Parish Church (St. Peter's).
[PB: See http://www.yorkshireindexers.info/wiki/index.php?title=Leeds_Parish_Church_Crimean_War_Memorials. Also Sgt John Macauley, 8th Hussars.]
Died, "of disease", in Camp in the Crimea on the 23rd of September 1854.
The Regimental History states that he died "of cholera".
His name appears on a memorial in Leeds Parish Church (St. Peter's).
[PB: See http://www.yorkshireindexers.info/wiki/index.php?title=Leeds_Parish_Church_Crimean_War_Memorials. Also Sgt John Macauley, 8th Hussars.
]68TH REGT. L.I.,
FROM 1854 TO 1856
AND OF
THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES, NATIVES OF LEEDS
WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE CRIMEAN WAR