Born at Drogheda, Co. Meath, c.1828.
Enlisted at Salford into the 76th Foot on the 23rd of February 1846. Regtl, No. 2513.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Labourer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Transferred to the 8th Hussars on the 1st of November 1846.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Shooting Star" on the 23rd of April 1854.
Served with the detchment of the regiment under Lt. Colonel De Salis in the Expedition to Kertch on the 22nd of May 1855.
Sent money from the Crimea to his wife, Catherine Martin..
Sent to the Depot when the regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign: 1st of October 1857.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 10th of December 1861.
"Invalided from varicose veins. Suffered also from scurvy when in the Crimea, the scars of which remain."
Served 15 years 264 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 11 months. Conduct: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Awarded a pension of 7d. per day.
To live c/o. "The Wellington Inn", Deanpole, Manchester.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Awarded the French War Medal. The citation for this stated: "Charged with the Light Brigade at Balaclava, also present in the ranks at the Alma and Inkerman and served with the Regiment throughout the war."
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with four clasps, the Turkish Medal, and the French War Medal.
Lummis and Wynn state that he attended the Annual Dinner in 1895, but he obviously could not have done so.
Died in the Manchester Pension District on the 30th of August 1873.
His death certificate shows that he died at No 41 Gun Street, Ancoats, Manchester, a Market Porter, at the age of 40 years from "Acute Bronchitis." A Patrick Sheerin, of No 53 Travis Street, Manchester, was shown as being present at, and the informant of, his death. (See copy in the 8th Hussar file.)