Born at Westwood Cutts, Dorset.
Enlisted at London on the 22nd of December 1854.
Age: 24.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Porter.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Military Train on the 31st of October 1856. Regimental No. 521.
Embarked for China on the 19th of November 1859.
Attached to the Cavalry in China, but not shown to which unit. (Probably the 1st Dragoon Guards.)
He is shown as being "On Embassy Guard" in October of 1860.
Transferred to the 2nd Battalion on the 1st of April 1862.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of August 1863.
Confined: 11th-12th of April 1864.
Reduced to Private by a Battalion Court-martial on the 13th of April 1864.
Returned to the 1st Battalion at Aldershot on the 2nd of December 1865 from the Depot at Woolwich, to which he had gone on the 1st of April 1865.
Re-engaged at Aldershot for a further 12 years' service on the 14th of November 1866.
From Private to Corporal: 5th of August 1868.
Transferred to the Woolwich Depot on the 20th of March 1868.
Transferred to the A.S.C. (Transport Department) on the 28th of February 1870. Regimental No. 982.
1871 Census
Army Service Corps, Aldershot.
George Pottle, 39, married, Corporal, born Handley, Dorset.
Died at Woolwich on the 19th of March 1873.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
China medal (1860) with clasps for Relief of Pekin and Pekin [?]
Died at Woolwich on the 19th of March 1873. No other details are shown: "Pocket-book not forthcoming."