Born at Drogheda, Ireland, c.1822.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 26th of October 1841.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Sent to the Cavalry Depot on the 19th of April 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 29th of April 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Died at Meerut, India, on the 26th of July 1861.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Died at Meerut, India, on the 26th of July 1861.
Next of kin: Father, William Martin, living in Chardhill, near Manchester.
The India Office records show him as having died at Meerut on the 26th of July 1861 from "cholera," aged 38 years. He was buried in the Catholic cemetery on the following day by the Revd. Father E. Darrell.
His name is recorded on a memorial placed on a wall of St. John's Garrison Church at Meerut. India. (See record of 979 Thomas Hanrahan, 8th Hussars.