Born in Manchester, c.1836.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 17th of January 1855.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Cart-sheet maker.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 30th of June 1855.
"Absent", from the 8th of August — 1st of September 1856. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 10th of September and in military confinement (Barrack Cells) to the 15th of October. In the Military Prison, Gosport, from the 16th of October — 1st of December 1856.
Volunteered to the Military Train on the 1st of June 1857, being at the Depot at Bristol with the Regimental No. of 1149.
Prisoner in cells from the 7-26 of June 1857 and re-transferred back to the 4th Light Dragoons on the 26th of June and in the Military Prison at Gosport from that date until the 29th of November 1857.
(He had been tried by Court-martial on the 12th of June for being "Drunk and using threatening language" and sentenced to 168 days imprisonment with hard labour.)
"Deserted" from Brighton on the 7th of December 1857.
Can find no further trace to 1879.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.