Enlisted at Dublin on the 14th of September 1854.
No other enlistment details are shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of July 1855.
"Absent", 16-23 of May and again from the 25th of May — 26th of June 1856. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned in a Civil prison (for a military offence) from the 27th of June — 13th of August 1856.
His name is shown in red ink at the bottom of the page in the muster roll for April — June of 1857, but no indication of any discharge, transfer, etc., is shown previous to this. He is not shown in the Discharge book, 1857-1910, of the regiment either.
Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment and being of a "Bad" character", from Dundalk on the 12th of January 1857.
Served 2 years 31 days, to count.
Conduct and character: "bad." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Shown as "Meadows" on some rolls.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.