Born at Clifton, near Bristol, c.1831.
Enlisted at Dorchester on the 1st of July 1853.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: None.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Wilson Kennedy" on the 2nd of May 1854.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of November 1854.
Confined, from the 30th of January and reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 5th of February 1855.
Confined from the 20th of April, and sentenced by a Regimental Court-martial on the 26th of April 1856 to 42 days imprisonment and to lose 1d. per day for six months.
Shown as "Absent", from the 8th of September 1857, but also as being sent to the Depot on the 1st of October. (This was when the Regiment went to India for the Mutiny campaign. )
Tried by a District Court-martial at Canterbury on the 8th of November 1857 for "Desertion and losing his necessaries, "Sentenced to 96 days imprisonment (of which 28 were remitted) and to be marked with the letter "D".
He had surrendered as a deserter from the 11th Foot, being confined from 26-31st of December 1857, but on the 1st of January 1858 was ordered to rejoin and continue serving in the 8th Hussars.
On a draft to India, landing at Bombay on the 26th of April 1858.
Volunteered into the 20th Hussars on the 1st of November 1863 with the Regimental No. of 655 and joined the regiment at Sealcote, India, on the 28th of December 1863.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 3rd of May 1866.
Served 12 years 313 days, but only 8 years 108 days "to count.".
Conduct and character: "Indifferent." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.