Enlisted at Liverpool on the 23rd of January 1847.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: None shown.
Sick in hospital at Scutari during June and invalided to England on the 8th of July 1855.
He was batman to Cornet Henry Frazer Dimsdale from the 9th of July 1855.
See the record of Cornet Henry Dimsdale, 11th Hussars for details of Powell being returned to the Depot following his dismissal as a batman.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Hounslow on the 15th of April 1857, upon payment of £20.
Served 9 years 330 days.
Conduct: "good."
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol and the Turkish medal. The muster roll for the Balaclava period muster roll states, "Sick, absent."