Born c.1836.
Enlisted on the 26th of December 1854, being a volunteer from the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorks Militia.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: None shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of June 1855.
He is also shown on a nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, as being In Hospital there from the 15th of September.
Rejoined the regiment on the 14th of November 1855 from Scutari Hospital.
From Private to Corporal: 7th of September 1857.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
From Corporal to Sergeant: 17th of June 1861.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 6th of June 1864.
Discharged, "time expired", from Weedon on the 26th of December 1866.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah.
A group consisting of the Crimean medal, engraved naming and with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, Turkish Medal and the Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India was known to be in an English collection in 1970.
A pair of medals, Crimean (said to be listed as with three clasps, but four are named) with engraved naming to "Private William Maughan. 8th Hussars." and the Turkish medal (Sardinian type) and with Depot impressed naming, were offered in a Welsh medal dealer's list in July of 1987. Also commented on was, "only entitled to clasp for Sebastopol, but "as worn." Both medals were on faded ribbons. It is not known if the Indian Mutiny medal was also included with the group.
(His Mutiny medal was later said to have been sold by a Manchester dealer in 1995.)
A Crimean medal, clasp for Sebastopol, to a "W. Morgan. 8th Hussars." was known to be in an English collection in 1997. Then said to be in a poor condition, the naming being very rubbed and the naming of the regiment partially erased.
Commented on at the time by the then-owner was, "The style of naming looks like (Depot) serifed type as seen before. Definitely impressed style — too thin and serifed to be engraved... Its toning is almost black, and is on original dirty ribbon"