Born in Birmingham, c.1837.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 12th of January 1855.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 5".
Trade: Grinder.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of June 1855.
Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of August 1857. Regimental No. 73.
Sent to England from the Kurrachee Depot, India on the 22nd of December 1866.
At the Canterbury Cavalry Depot from the 25th of February 1857.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 17th of June 1867.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.
Served in the field in Oude, East Indies, from the 4th of February — 14th of May 1858, including the siege of Lucknow, 2-16 of March 1858.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
A Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and with impressed naming to "Thomas Moorhouse. 7th Hussars." is known to be in a Midland's private collection. (1984) It could be that this medal, when issued to him, was named to the regiment to which he had transferred, but there is nothing on the medal roll to confirm, or explain, why this should have been so. The "Remarks" column shows "Regt. 8/8/56," a comment (but not always the same date) applicable to most named.
A pair of medals, comprising of the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol (officially impressed naming to "Thomas Moorhouse. 7th Hussars" and the Turkish medal Sardinian type — but "unofficial" [sic] with small engraved naming to "Private Thomas Moorhouse. No. 1779 4th Light Dragoons.", appeared in a Glendining's auction on the 24th of March 1993. A note detailing his service added: Turkish War Medal purchased 11th of November 1985 and put together after 151 years. [sic]
What would appear to be this same pair of medals appeared in a Spink's Medal Circular (No. 8 ) of December 1997.