Born in London.
Enlisted at London on the 21st of February 1852.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Clerk.
From Private to Corporal: 28th of October 1854.
Allowed to revert to his real name of "Richard Porter" on promotion to Sergeant on the 25th of August 1855.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Cahir on the 30th of October 1856, upon payment of £30.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman. Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Being shown on the medal roll for Alma and Inkerman as a Private, and on that for Sebastopol as a Sergeant, it is not clear as in which rank his medal is named, but was almost certainly in the name of "Richard Parker".
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