Born at Longford, Ireland, c.1828.
Enlisted at Longford on the 9th of February 1846.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Labourer.
Fair complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Confined, "by order of the Commanding Officer," from the 24-30 of July 1847.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.
The muster rolls for July-August show him as being in the General Hospital at Varna, at Scutari from the 15th of September, rejoining the regiment from the 20th of October and on being sent back to Scutari General Hospital was there from the 9th of December until being invalided to England, via Malta, on the 16th of December and being at Chatham Invalid Depot from the 3rd of February 1855.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 11th of September 1855.
"Rendered unfit for further service from wound of right heel by a fragment of shell received at Balaclava during the cavalry charge. "The "oz calcis" is injured and enlarged."
From this it can be presumed that he rode in the Charge but he is not shown on the official Casualty Lists as being wounded at Balaclava and if this was indeed the case was not serious enough to prevent him being at Inkerman. The Sebastopol clasp roll shows (what appears to be) the date 27/12/56 and in the Remarks column, "To Malta." Neither do Lummis and Wynn show him as having participated in the Charge.
Served 9 years 17 days, 5 months being "dis-allowed."
In Turkey and the Crimea: 7 months.
Conduct and character: "Has been bad." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned from the 19th of December 1849 — 21st of January 1850 and to forfeit 1d. per day for 6 months.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial for "absence" and imprisoned from the 9th of January — 6th of February 1851.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned from the 28th of February — 29th of April 1852.
Granted a pension of 9d. per day.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Living in Nottingham, Leicester, Carlow and London after discharge and later in Leicester from 1863.
Died in the Leicester Pension District on the 31st of January 1872.
His wife may have been with him in the Crimea as the Chatham Invalid Depot muster rolls at the time of his discharge show him as being accompanied to Nottingham by "Wife, Ann, joined him on arrival from the East, 7th March 1855." He himself had joined the Depot from Malta on the 3rd of February 1855.