Born at Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 5th of February 1855.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Shoe-maker.
"Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September [1856] but ...served with the Regiment during the Expedition to Eupatoria [October 1856]."
Discharged from Brighton on the "Reduction of the Regiment" on the 26th of November 1856.
Served 1 year 292 days.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941, Samuel Briggs — 4th Light Dragoons.)
Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September [1856] but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the Regiment during the Expedition to Eupatoria in the month of October of that same year. Camp Aldershot, 16th November 1857.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
See also Thomas Pownall, in Wendy Leahy, Shadows of Time website.