Born in Manchester, c.1829.
Enlisted at Newbridge on the 21st of August 1849.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Carpenter.
Tried by a District Court-martial at Exeter on the 4th of April 1854 for "Theft" and sentenced to receive 50 lashes, 84 days imprisonment with hard labour, and stoppage of pay. He was released in order to embark for the Crimea.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Shooting Star" on the 25th of April 1854.
Sent to Scutari on the 2nd of January 1855 and died in the General Hospital there on the 13th of January.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol. An impressed naming medal, (clasps unknown) was sold by Baldwin's in 1930. It appeared again in a Hall's list for March of 1973 and in a Stockton medal dealer's list for October of 1976.
His Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol (with officially impressed naming), was known to be in a North of England collection in 1991.
This medal (with identical description) appeared in a J. J. Medals list in December of 1995 and is now in a Midlands collection.
It was again offered in the May 1998, Liverpool Coins and Medal's list, and is now in a Northern Ireland collection.