Born in Ealing, London.
Enlisted at London on the 1st of December 1854.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Servant.
Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 1st of February 1857. Regimental No. 105.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 21st of July 1857:
"Unfit for service owing to varicose veins in the lower extremities. The result of constitutional infirmity and not aggravated by vice or intemperance on his part."
Served 2 years 199 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 1 month.
Aged 23 years 6 months on discharge.,
Conduct: "a very good soldier." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges. Awarded a pension of 6d. per day for three months.
To live in Ealing, Middlesex.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
1861 Census
Ealing Green, Ealing.
James Pritchard, 27, Ostler, born Ealing.
Caroline, 30, Cook, born Clapham.
Additional Census information for 1861 kindly provided by Chris Poole.